Word: acted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEATEN by a piece of mail. In its act of sending fake draft notices to 500 undergraduate males, the Committee On Central America did more for political awareness in one week than I've done in three-and-a-half years as a cartoonist...
...Sunday, in his last act as president, Gustav Husak swore in a Cabinet whose members include people he had jailed or stripped of all but the most menial jobs. The new Cabinet gave the country its first government dominated by non-Communists since...
Lasting change will come only with an increase in student pressure on the faculty and administration. The ad hoc committee must mobilize the student body; only then will the faculty take note and act...
...show also illustrates the way leaders must expect the unexpected and not always believe what they hear. The Soviet side is distressed as Washington gets mired in the constitutional procedures for authorizing the next in line -- the Speaker of the House -- to act as President. Later, the American team is incensed by an intelligence report, which proves to be erroneous, that the Afghan army has fired Soviet missiles armed with chemical warheads into mujahedin refugee camps in Pakistan...
...Philippines is still dependent on the United States," says Karnow. "What's called a 'neocolonial relationship' or 'a special relationship' is still there." The rebels have seized on the issue and are holding Ambassador Platt "personally responsible" for their defeat and calling the U.S. move "an act of aggression against the sovereign Filipino people...