Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wayne Andersen and Mike Hauch have he sprints sewed up. Aggrey Awori and Tony Lynch will go one-two in the high hurdles, and Lynch will run away with the intermediates. John Bakkensen and Art Croasdale will sweep the weight events. Awori and Harvey Thomas will sweep the broad jump, and Chris Pardee and Charles Njoku should do the same in the high jump...
...special envoy, President Johnson sent John Bartlow Martin, 49, to plead for "broad-based" government between the rebels, led by Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, and the five-man loyalist junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras. Martin was U.S. ambassador in Santo Domingo in 1963 during the administration of exiled President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original revolt was launched. He was a friend of Bosch, knew both Caamaño and Imbert. He carried only one condition from Johnson: that Communists among the rebels must be excluded from any new government. Martin shuttled...
Nevertheless, Byrne and his eight-man staff argue that the regents have failed to confine themselves to broad policymaking functions and have got bogged down in administrative trivia: "In a typical month of 1964, the President sent the regents 400 pages of complex material, running to several hundred thousand words." Moreover, the system has no clear delegation of authority or systematic code of laws: officials "constantly refer to university regulations which are difficult or impossible to find...
Against a broad-jump field thinned by injuries, Awori managed to win with a 22 ft., 9 1/2 in leap, Harvey Thomas jumped 22 ft., in, to take third place...
Awori scored a second in the high hurdies and a first in the broad jump to end the day with 12 points...