Word: conducting
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Each of the Fellows will conduct research, take classes and attend seminars at the CfIA, Brown said. The fellowship does not include a monetary stipend, so most of the Fellows will be supported by their native governments, or by American corporations, he added...
...rejecting the United Nations plan for an internationally supervised transition to independence in Namibia, the miner-rich territory South Africa has illegally occupied in defiance of U.N. ruling since 1966. Last week, in an 11th-hour decision, retiring South African Prime Minister John Vorster announced that South Africa would conduct its own independence election in the territory, rather than allow U.N. troops and civilian personnel to supervise the election of a transitional Namibian government...
According to the memo, Griffin tried to persuade Chief Investigator William Clinkscales to conduct "bootleg investigations" of which no official record was made. When Clinkscales refused, Alto's memo said, Griffin ordered that he be transferred to another job and demoted...
...guerrilla warfare, and a less-than-inspiring crowd of American helpers. Among them: A sergeant whose gung-ho spirit has been burned out in the war. A lieutenant who moronically parrots-because he moronically believes-all the official rationales for the war, all the official ideas of how to conduct yourself on this dark and bloody ground. A sometime college student one suspects of having literary ambitions-he's looking for a war, any war, merely to experience it. These soldiers are mostly seen not as brutes, but as decent if limited men doing their best in an indecent...
...that goes against the escapist grain of movies at this moment. The gesture is probably as futile, commercially, as defending Muc Wa was militarily, but you have to applaud the bravery of the effort and issue some kind of citation to a film that, all told, celebrates unconsciously honorable conduct by individuals enlisted in a bad cause. And offers a lot of good acting in the supporting roles too. -Richard Schickel