Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority student groups--AIH, the BSA, LaOrganization, Raza, and the Asian-AmericanAssociation--have yet to choose theirrepresentatives to the Student Advisory Committee.Rudy Ruiz '89 will represent the UndergraduateCouncil, but the three house delegates have yet tobe chosen...
...were deadlocked. By 10 p.m. on the eve of a party vote, Takeshita, the consummate dealmaker, had realized there were no more deals to make. He reluctantly left the final decision to Nakasone, leader of the party. The Prime Minister might well have ignored Takeshita's party clout and chosen his rival, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, a politician cut from the same cloth as Nakasone. Finally, minutes after midnight, the verdict arrived: Takeshita would be the next Prime Minister...
...escalation mentality, a series of small confrontations could lead to more deadly military incidents. On the other hand, the fact that Iran responded to the U.S. attack by again hitting at Kuwait suggests that Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is not ready to confront the U.S. military directly. Instead, Iran has chosen to sow * confusion in the ranks of U.S. policymakers by striking collateral targets like Kuwait...
...power in 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara changed the name of his landlocked West African country (pop. 7.3 million) from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, which in the local Mossi and Dioula languages means "Land of Upright Men." The old moniker was no longer appropriate, said Sankara, because it was chosen not by Africans but by white French colonists. Last week Sankara, 37, a popular and charismatic leader who was every inch an upright man, was himself replaced. He was ousted and killed in a bloody rebellion led by his second-in-command, Captain Blaise Compaore...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's fanatical followers have instead chosen to use the Silkworms for assaults on vulnerable Kuwait, which has supplied billions of dollars to Iraq during the seven-year war. Dozens of ships bound to and from Kuwait have come under fire from armed Iranian speedboats that race around the gulf. Until now, however, the Iranians have taken care not to directly attack the eleven tankers -- half the Kuwaiti-owned fleet -- now under the protection of U.S. warships...