Word: rules
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notable diplomatic success. Under the skillful guidance of Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, leaders of both the interim Salisbury government and the Patriotic Front guerrillas signed an agreement that promised?precariously?to end a seven-year-old civil war and provide a peaceful transition to genuine majority rule in Zimbabwe Rhodesia. There were other indications of growing rationality in Africa, as three noxious dictators who had transformed their nations into slaughterhouses fell from power: Idi Amin was ousted from Uganda, Jean Bédal Bokassa from the Central African Empire (now Republic), and Francisco Macias Nguema from Equatorial Guinea...
...personal routines, so in politics: to Khomeini the only just state is one ruled by Islamic theologians, who alone can be trusted to interpret God's commands correctly. There is no separation of church and state, or division between sacred and secular, in Islamic teaching. The Ayatullah, however, carries his theocratic vision much farther than most other Muslim scholars by insisting on the clergy's duty, not just to pass moral judgment on the acts of government, but to rule the state directly?a concept enshrined in the constitution that Iran adopted last month. The ideal Islamic government, Khomeini...
...reluctantly, when his goals cannot be accomplished immediately. During the Tehran government's military campaign against the Kurds last spring, he denounced the separatist leaders as corrupt men deserving of punishment. Later he sanctioned negotiations to allow for some form of Kurdish autonomy. After mass protests he modified his rule that women must wear the chador to one requiring merely "modest dress"?even though he fumed to Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci about "the coquettes who put on makeup and go into the street showing off their necks, their hair, their shapes...