Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid the turmoil surrounding his nomination, Bork has continued his visits with key Senators, tirelessly explaining his stands on legal issues, struggling to convince lawmakers that he is the right man for the Supreme Court. Though one Reagan aide described Bork as "nervous as a tic," he insists that the judge has never talked about withdrawing his nomination. "He was not asked to ((withdraw)) and didn't raise it" during a 20-minute pep talk with the President at the White House last week, said the aide. An official who spent a good deal of time with Bork last week...
...Prime Minister was out of the country for "medical reasons" that most of his countrymen believed were also largely political. Eight Cabinet ministers were reported to have resigned amid allegations of rampant corruption and to be held under house arrest. The acting Prime Minister ordered the army on alert, and roadblocks went up around the capital...
...strafing resumed until the Iran Ajr was disabled, its stern on fire. Six hours later in the light of dawn the SEALs from the Guadalcanal scrambled up the hull of the crippled ship. They found no one alive. Three bodies had been left behind by the fleeing crewmen amid a scene of destruction caused by the chopper assaults. Windows were shattered and huge gouges pocked the hull and cabin. Offices and other rooms had been ransacked in a hasty effort by the Iranians to destroy papers...
Arias' congressional debut came amid growing suspicions that the Reagan Administration would rather not take a chance on the kind of peace envisioned in the Guatemala plan. Despite widespread support for the accord in Central America and the Congress, the White House was handing out a different message: that the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua could not be trusted to observe the accord and that continued pressure by the U.S.-backed contra rebels is needed to prod the Sandinistas toward genuine reform. In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly last week, President Reagan warned that until Nicaragua achieves...
...effectiveness. In view of the Administration's past record, few expect the report to call for making current U.S. punitive actions any tougher, even if it deems the current sanctions completely unsuccessful. But there is little sentiment in Congress to abandon after only one year a program that passed amid bitter debate and provided at least the appearance that the U.S. was doing something about apartheid...