Word: commits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the new members of the committee, which is comprised of faculty, alumni, and students, said that they are not willing to commit themselves to either side of the divestiture issue...
...this Thursday, about the father he lost in Beirut: "My life is full of sadness upon this gloomy day,/ My father is in heaven and all the birds have flown away." Afterward, standing in the chilly rain at a nearby airbase, Reagan tried to explain the sacrifice. "We commit our resources and risk the lives of those in our armed forces to rescue others from bloodshed and turmoil and to prevent humankind from drowning in a sea of tyranny," he said. "The world looks to America for leadership, and America looks to the men in its armed forces...
...long. The strangling is exhausting for both involved and Rossman's face turns hideously red in his futile struggle. By prolonging their theatrical duel and a later bludgeoning, director Beth Schachter reminds the audience that death really isn't that funny and murder is downright terrifying to witness or commit...
...easy to see what might be done. Commitments could be lightened, but which friendly states should be told the U.S. might not defend them? Military forces could be built up further; the U.S. may even need the draft. But Reagan is having trouble getting his present defense-spending requests through Congress (he asked for a 14.2% increase over fiscal 1983). Perhaps the most comforting thought is that the Soviet Union, faced by a hostile China on one flank and ringed by potentially mutinous East European allies on another, has its own worries about how much military force it could safely...
DIED. Isidore Zimmerman, 66, a retired doorman who, imprisoned from 1937 to 1962 for a murder he did not commit, was awarded $1 million in damages last May; of a heart attack; in New York City. In 1937 Zimmerman was falsely implicated by one of the killers of a New York police detective and had his death sentence commuted to a life term just hours before he was scheduled to be electrocuted. In 1962 an appellate court ruled that he had been convicted on perjured testimony and that the prosecution had suppressed evidence that would have cleared him. After...