Word: rights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presented with the red, gold and green ceremonial sash of the presidency, Gueiler was handed a blunt de mand by a coalition of young pro-democratic army officers. Its substance: that she oust all of the high military officials appointed by Natusch, including General Luis Garcia Meza, a right-wing officer who had been named commander of the army. Gueiler was happy to oblige; she selected General Rene Villaroel, a moderate officer, for Garcia Meza's post. But Garcia Meza, backed by the army's conservative senior officers, would not vacate his command. He refused to step down...
...industry executive who has visited there. Inside, "these guys are all sitting around, and they've got little computers, and'they're writing down figures and leafing through little books, and they scratch their heads, and then they say, 'Unh-unh, that's not right...
...richly vested Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I, Pope John Paul II became the first Pontiff in nine centuries to join in an Orthodox Eucharistic service. Though the Pope did not partake of Communion, he quietly hummed along with the chants and made the sign of the cross Eastern style, right to left...
...arbiter. This split seemingly became unbridgeable in 1870 when the First Vatican Council declared papal infallibility in formal teachings and defined the Pope's "immediate" jurisdiction over every diocese in the world. Orthodoxy might accept the Pope as primate, but only as a first among equals with the right to initiate and coordinate action, a slow and often exasperating process now followed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate with the independent branches within the Orthodox Church. If the Pope accepted such a condition, he would be reverting to his status during the first eight centuries after Christ, something that few Catholics...
Arguing for the Government, Assistant Attorney General Drew Days maintained that Congress had no need to provide a detailed justification for the 10% set-aside, since it had "unique competence" to right past wrongs as it saw fit. Although the Government had been trying to help minority businesses in various ways for ten years, going back to the Nixon Administration's "black capitalism" campaign, Days said, "Congress concluded that these measures simply had not worked," and that quotas therefore were necessary...