Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francisco Conference of 1945 that founded the U.N., he filled a variety of posts before presiding in 1965 over the first Latin American convention, held in Mexico City, on the dangers of nuclear proliferation. Two years later, he proudly oversaw the signing of the Tlatelolco Treaty. (That document, however, still has only symbolic significance: the two countries most likely to develop atomic bombs in Latin America, Argentina and Brazil, have signed the treaty but have not yet ratified...
...virtue in a century of inhumanity. Saints are usually not proclaimed till at least 50 years after the process begins. Kolbe reached beatification, the next-to-last step, in 1971, as Paul VI became the first Pontiff to perform such a ceremony personally. After beatification, the church must normally document two miracles resulting from prayers to the candidate to intercede with God. John Paul removed the need for that by proclaiming Kolbe not only a "confessor" but a martyr, a Christian who died for his faith. As it happened there were several reports of miracles that the Vatican could have...
...added, "If we permit the Shah to come to the U.S. for treatment, we would want to inform the Iranians that we were doing so for humanitarian purposes and to leave open any question of future residence." In the margin I wrote "O.K." and returned a copy of the document to Vance...
...Israelis. Vance had just shown them a copy of our draft letter that would go to Sadat, restating the U.S. position on Jerusalem, which had been spelled out officially in U.N. debates over the years. There was an absolute furor, and Begin announced that Israel would not sign any document if we wrote any letter to Egypt about Jerusalem...
Begin came with Dayan and Barak, for which we were thankful. If anyone at Camp David had influence on Begin, it was these two men. Begin began talking about the blessed settlements, but I insisted that we go through both documents in an orderly fashion, paragraph by paragraph. I wanted the Israelis to realize how few differences remained. In an hour we were finished with the Sinai document, and it was obvious to me that Sadat would be willing to accept almost all the Israeli demands for change. The few others were not very important to Begin, and I felt...