Word: cancels
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...rates on vessels using the gulf, this time more than doubling the fee (from 3% to 7.5% of value) for ships sailing to Kharg Island. In Geneva, Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, declared: "What we are afraid of is that Lloyd's might cancel insurance for navigation in the gulf, and this would be equal to closing the Strait of Hormuz." Lloyd's denied the likelihood of such a cancellation. In any event, the world, and particularly the U.S., is nowhere near as dependent on gulf oil as it was ten or even...
...beat the Russians," said U.S. Gymnast Mary Lou Retton. "I was going because it has always been my dream." A good and brave line is managed by Lorraine Moller, the marathoner from New Zealand, who reasons, "They will be the only Olympics I might ever "know. Would you cancel your birthday party because a few relatives won't show?" American Gymnast Mitch Gaylord believes, "They will still be the Olympic Games. There's nothing bigger than that." As Naber says, "There are still five rings and gods on clouds throwing lightning bolts." When Alberto Salazar and others...
...boycott could not have come at a worse time for Arledge. As it happened, he was meeting in Los Angeles with the network's 214 affiliates to talk up the coming Games. To air long, continuous segments of the Olympics, the affiliates are required by the network to cancel or delay some of their most profitable local programming. In return, ABC provides spots for local commercials during Olympic programming. Even before the boycott announcement, some stations were having trouble selling those spots. So it was not surprising that a mood of dismay swept the ballroom of the Century Plaza...
Although few people believed Duarte's demurral, even liberal Democrats conceded that CIA funding of the Christian Democrats was probably necessary to cancel out the money being poured into ARENA coffers by right-wing oligarchs in El Salvador and in exile in Florida. It is not unusual for governments to back their favorite candidates in other countries: West European parties in power often send funds to sister groups abroad. Nonetheless, the recent revelations unsettled quite a few members of Congress, who grumbled that the CIA had once again neglected to keep Congress fully informed of its activities...
...Institute of Politics forum on Tuesday at 8 p.m. entitled "Remembering Harry Truman," with panel members Clark Gifford (Truman's legal advisor). David McCullough (Truman's biographer), and Frank Pace (Truman's Secretary of the Army Meanwhile. EI Salvadorian presidential candidates Jose Napoleon Duarte has had to cancel his Law School appearance...