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After fighting broke out in El Salvador, a group of West European Socialists dodged bullets to meet with leftist rebel leaders. During the siege of Beirut, a delegation of Social Democrats picked its way through rubble to confer with Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat. When they are not touring global hot spots, representatives of the Socialist International, the umbrella organization for 49 Social Democratic parties in Europe, Asia and the Americas, meet frequently to make pronouncements that, they hope, will be heeded by an estimated 15 million party members worldwide...
...issued a detailed rebuttal of Barrow's charges. It claimed that all the incidents took place within areas controlled by Israeli forces, not by the Marines, and attributed the strains partly to the fact that U.S. officers, unlike their French, Italian and British colleagues, are instructed not to confer with their Israeli colleagues. Privately, the Israelis blamed Weinberger, whom they regard as their nemesis in the Reagan Administration...
...keep the buying public bedazzled, Chrysler is developing vehicles for special market segments, known in Detroit as "niche" cars. These are expected to confer some luster on the rest of the car line as well as to reach relatively small but profitable markets where other carmakers are not competing. Later this year Chrysler will introduce the ultimate in elongated K-cars, the roomy five-passenger Chrysler Executive Sedan and a seven-passenger limousine. lacocca has also ordered...
...with Herschel. The minute negotiations began with the Generals he knew his college eligibility under NCAA rules was shot. The USFL made sure by forcing Walker to confer at least twice with the League's counsel, Steve Earhart...
...share of minor security lapses. An angry old woman searching for a toy store located across the street was once discovered roaming through the ground floor of the KGB building. In an incident that must have left Andropov red-faced, a distinguished group of guests who had come to confer with the KGB chief discovered on leaving his office that all their elegant fur hats had been stolen from the anteroom...