Word: interims
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...present a conciliatory foreign policy. First, it announced last week that it would comply with a 14-month-old, U.S.-brokered agreement and withdraw its troops from Angola. Then, appearing before Parliament, Botha agreed to allow neighboring Namibia's internal political organizations, both black and white, to form an interim administration with a bill of rights and a constitutional court and council. Though not amounting to full self-government, that generous-seeming offer aroused fears in the West that South Africa, which has ruled Namibia in defiance of the United Nations for almost two decades, might be trying to dodge...
...history, was a complicated matter with serious implications for the future. During the several hours that he would be under anesthesia, and possibly for some time thereafter, the President would be unable to make a decision or discharge the powers and duties of his office. In the interim, Reagan and his aides knew, they had to establish clearly who would have the ultimate responsibility as Commander in Chief. Beyond that, the White House staff needed to make plans for running the Government during the President's recuperation, however long that might be. If, as an old saying goes, "power...
...debate, which flared last fall with angry campus protests against American investment in South Africa, is now heading toward a kind of interim compromise solution in the U.S. Congress. Its essence: try some less drastic economic sanctions against South Africa first and see if they shock the white-dominated government into moving faster to end repression of the country's 22 million member black majority. To that end, the Senate last week voted 80 to 12 in favor of a bill that would ban new bank loans to South Africa, cut off nuclear trade, prohibit the sale of computers...
...that there is a downside to an old Pope and a short papacy. A Vatican official who watched several electors view John Paul's body says, "The look in their eyes said the unstated, [that] the last thing we'd want is a decrepit [Pontiff]." Now fans of the interim solution have reluctantly had to return to regarding the full spectrum of Cardinal options...
According to Kirshner, Senior Tutors stay on the job for an average three to four years as an interim stage in their careers. Being a Senior Tutor is “not a forever job,” he said...