Word: absents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exchange economic aid for support of American anti-socialist policies, recently said that "unacceptable or polemical" conditions of aid would be opposed. Other Latin American nations most notably Mexico and Venezuela, have strongly refused to toe that Reagen line on Cuba, Nicaragua and E1 Salvador. They are conspicuously absent from the President's schedule in the next five days...
...initial speculation centered on Politburo Member Andrei Kirilenko, 76, who was rumored to be ailing and who was absent from the traditional Kremlin lineup at the Nov. 7 ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the October Revolution. After the news, the nationwide first channel aired an unscheduled program of war reminiscences. On the second channel, an ice hockey game was abruptly replaced by Tchaikovsky's mournful "Pathétique" Symphony...
...feels it was very difficult for reporters to do their job during this period. "We were very depressed during the Cultural Revolution," she says. She adds. "We usually just made an excuse, not come into the office, say we were sick...We were absent a few days because we didn't [want] to propagate things [with] which we disagreed, but if you're going to work, you have...
...suspicions had been aroused that the mysteriously absent votes would turn up as Democratic ones. But when the final precincts were tabulated on Friday, they provided a winning edge to a greatly relieved Thompson. In an emotional speech, Thompson vowed that he would not let the victory be taken away. Said he: "We beat 'em and we beat 'em good." Stevenson declared that victory was his, but would not say whether he would ask for a recount if the vote is certified later this month. In the past, such recounts, which are paid for by the requesting candidate...
...guard who killed 13 last month in Wilkes-Barre. In retaliation, Thornburgh put ads on television charging that his challenger was "silent" when white policemen in Harrisburg began selling Ku Klux Klan pins. Republican Congressman Cooper Evans of Iowa has been running commercials charging that Opponent Lynn Cutler was absent from 25% of her meetings of the Black Hawk County board of supervisors. Democrat Cutler responded by attacking Evans for missing 40% of the meetings of the House Agriculture Committee. Says Cutler's press secretary Chris Gresock: "Once the tone of a campaign is set, the other party...