Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secretary of State George P. Shultz said Saturday that Arafat would not be allowed to attend this week's U.N. debate on the Palestinian issue because of evidence that Palestine Liberation Organization elements "have engaged in terrorism against Americans and others...
...once powerful Interior Minister, was suddenly posted to Moscow as ambassador, a kind of exile. His apparent problem: opposition to compromise with the mujahedin. Last week another sympathizer of the hard-line Khalqi faction, Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Ghaffer Lakanwal, defected to the U.S. while in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly...
...more interesting statistics the University released yesterday in its study on College life was that interest in attending graduate schools in the arts and sciences is at a high among Harvard undergraduates. According to the poll of 2360 upperclass undergraduates, one out of four students plans to attend graduate school in the arts and sciences...
This mindset leads the national media to characterize in cynical terms everything our generation does. Those high school students who apply to and attend the nation's "elite" colleges are doing so, we are told, not for the intellectual atmosphere such schools can provide us with, but rather for the connections they supposedly offer to the "corridors of power", in Washington and Wall Street. Ours has been the new "lost generation," influenced by the self-indulgence of the Reagan years, hopelessly corrupted by daily corruption in sports, business and politics...
However, I would ask those responsible for seating to reconsider their arrangements. How difficult can it be to insure that every senior gets a good seat--there are only 1400 of us, and of that number how many attend "The Game?" William Weil...