Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point plan that included a promise that the U.S. would deliver 500 TOW missiles to the Iranians and pursue the release of 17 Shi'ite Muslim terrorists being held in Kuwait in return for one or two American captives. Hakim, following Secord's recommendations, went as far as to commit the U.S. to fighting the Soviets if they invaded Iran, and he pledged U.S. assistance in efforts to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Secord and North approved Hakim's arrangement. Four days before the election, Hostage David Jacobsen was freed (nonetheless, the G.O.P. lost control of the Senate). When Liman...
...contingency forced the Soviet nations to in effect either agree to join hands with the U.S. or to commit themselves to go it alone, accelerating an antagonistic course which was already taking shape, historians...
...quite sure [the speech] will be about the importance of public service, about doing something that goes beyond your particular needs," Dukakis says. The Governor, who has spent his entire career in Massachusetts politics, says he will ask the seniors "to commit themselves in whatever way to public service...
...year-old Loury, whom President Reagan tapped in March for the number two post in the Department of Education, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Friday to charges of assault and battery, threat to commit murder and willful and malicious destruction of property...
...moving toward democracy. Foglietta, a Democrat, was forced to strip out some of the toughest measures, including the denial of commercial landing rights for South Korean airlines, when it became clear that the bill as it read stood virtually no chance of passage. But the amended bill would still commit the U.S. to voting against development loans to South Korea by the World Bank and some other international credit agencies...