Word: cancellations
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...Capitol Hill, 53 Senators from both parties signed a letter urging Reagan to cancel the Bitburg visit. The letter noted that SS troops had committed atrocities against American prisoners during the Battle of the Bulge, as well as against millions of Jews, and suggested dryly that "a more appropriate gesture of reconciliation be found." In the House, New York Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz charged, "This is the most monumental error of judgment by the President since he assumed office." Asked another New York Democrat, Congressman Ted Weiss, "Mr. President, where is your sense of history? Where is your sense...
Actually I had come down with a bad cold the day before the date but decided not to cancel on him, given how long he'd waited. When he called to get directions to my house, I told him I was sick and would have to make it an early evening. It didn't seem to faze him. But I was nervous! I'd gathered the clan around me for support: Peter, [her stepdaughter] Nathalie, Troy, Vanessa, Lulu and my assistant, Debbie Karolewski...
When the producers announced on March 25 that they planned to cancel the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity, its star, CHRISTINA APPLEGATE, put her foot down--gingerly. "There was a huge, resounding no in me," says the Anchorman actress, who broke her right foot in a performance in Chicago last month. Three weeks of backstage drama followed. First the show was to open in New York City with a stand-in, then it was closed entirely. But in three days of phone pleas to producer Barry Weissler, "I made him see how important it was that the show...
...York that Churchill, who had been invited to speak there, had penned an essay equating U.S. foreign policy with Nazi Germany's conduct in World War II and labeling some of the people working in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," after the architect of the Holocaust. Hamilton canceled Churchill's engagement, but the furor spread. Outraged Colorado house members unanimously passed a resolution condemning his "evil and inflammatory" words. Colorado Governor Bill Owens called on Churchill to resign and urged lawmakers to consider changing tenure rules, normally the purview of the school and the elected board of regents that...
Sailing was sunny and cold on Saturday and a two-day regatta had been planned, but forecasts of inclement weather prompted race organizers to cancel racing on Sunday...