Many of the forces now opposing the Taliban include signatories of the later fatwas that deprived Afghan women of their rights.
Later signatories to similar letters were senior officials in the Northern Ireland Office.
Certification, carrying with it the prospect of criminal prosecution for the signatories if the accounts later proved to be fraudulent, would presumably not be done lightly.
A few months later, ten signatories of the Basic Document were imprisoned for "attempting to change the constitution by illegal means".
These became the core of Charter 77, an appeal for political liberty with 243 original signatories that, two years later in 1979, landed him in jail for four years.On release, he celebrated with a lot of partying and ever bolder political organising.
This petition became the pretext for severe penalties later inflicted upon the signatories.
Also in the Spectator some months later one of the 35 signatories, Richard Shone, a deputy editor of the Burlington Magazine, attacked every single non-trendy writer on art – Auty as "didactic", John McEwen as "world-weary" and so forth.
Later, as one of 39 signatories, Sotomayor helped pen another letter to The Daily Princetonian responding to the ransacking of the dorm room of two gay students by a group of eight colleagues.
Even though little was agreed and the agreement was later interpreted differently by its signatories, the Brioni Agreement established the EC's interest in the region and the first EC Ministerial Conference on Yugoslavia was held in The Hague on 10 July.
