Word: reverting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...accept the new President's offer to form a bipartisan coalition of "national unity." One reason: D.P. Leader Paul Ssemogerere, 48, was once imprisoned by Obote. Disruptive opposition could spell disaster. Says one envoy based in Uganda: "If Obote runs into a lot of trouble, he probably will revert to type." That would mean going back to the days when Obote suspended the constitution, clapped thousands of opponents in jail without trial and ruled in such a high-handed way the people originally danced in the streets when Amin ousted...
Does that mean the relationship revert to the cozy intimacy of former years, when the Attorney General sometimes too readily did the bidding of his boss? Replies Smith: "Obviously, the Justice Department has to be independent, but it is part of the Executive Branch. Independence relates only to certain kinds of activities; for instance, those involving the White House itself." People who know both Reagan and Smith are convinced that there is no cause for concern. Smith, one of three managing partners of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the second largest law firm in Los Angeles, has a solid reputation for being...
...foreign currency control to fight Israel's punishing triple-digit inflation. On matters of foreign policy, both want to maintain close relations with the U.S. and honor the Camp David agreements. Rabin and Peres subscribe to the "Jordanian" option, under which most of the occupied West Bank would revert to joint Jordanian-Palestinian control...
Long-term political change, he believes, will be difficult to implement. "Any reform will hurt the vested interest," Zhao contends. "Bureaucracy abhors change and present policies are running into a stiff resistance." If Deng's policies fail, Zhao warns, the nation will either revert to following the Soviet Union or become "something like Iran, neither pro-Western nor pro-Eastern, but internally confused and chaotic...
...invented to represent a representative Government. Every time a new President moves in, the city changes dramatically. All those immeasurably powerful Cabinet chiefs, Senators, admirals, ambassadors - they come and go. Thousands of Washingtonians have been wondering if they would continue to be Washingtonians after this week, or revert to Iowans or Oregonians. The city was invented by the people, and it takes its nature from whatever the people wish...