Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hear people talking about Carter being proabortion. Now I hear people saying they just can't believe the President said what he did." Invited to speak at a long-scheduled Polish American Congress dinner in Chicago last week. Bishop Alfred L. Abramowicz agonized over whether to attend because Jimmy Carter was the main guest. When he finally decided to go, he told the audience, "I find myself in a great dilemma tonight. My Catholic friends of Polish descent assembled here shout, 'Come sit and dine with us!' My pro-life friends outside clamor, 'Come stand...
...hardly coincidental that the Syrian attack took place on the eve of an Arab summit conference scheduled for this week in Cairo. Syria's President Hafez Assad, who wants to impose a settlement that will suppress Palestinian guerrilla activity and assure Syrian influence throughout the region, refused to attend any such meeting. Then, under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Assad agreed to confer with Arab leaders gathered over the weekend at the Saudi capital of Riyadh. After the talking was over, the prospect was that Syria would continue to push its offensive...
...game, Mather impressed onlookers early with its strenuous pre-game calisthenics and its coach, who wore sunglasses and a sweatshirt while carrying a clipboard. Winthrop was up 12-0 at the half (successful extra-points are not too common in intramural football), but the physician who is required to attend all games had left and the second half was indefinitely postponed...
...long conference in Mozambique, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, rival leaders of nationalist factions, claimed to have cemented their differences in a new "Patriotic Front." Rejecting the Kissinger proposals as a basis for discussion, the two black leaders demanded that the conference in Geneva be postponed. While agreeing to attend talks, both indicated that the only subject for negotiation should be "immediate transfer" of power from the "colonial power"-Britain-to the "people of Zimbabwe." Should Ian Smith or any white Rhodesian at tend, Nkomo and Mugabe said, "we can only regard him/them as an extension of the United Kingdom...
...seems to be trying. Two years ago, the Philippine capital played host to the Miss Universe Contest, and last year it had the Ali-Frazier heavyweight title bout. Last week the city rolled out the carpet for 1,500 leaders of international finance and banking who gathered to attend the first annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank ever held in Southeast Asia...