Word: conference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gemayel stopped in France to confer with King Hussein of Jordan, who was vacationing near Nice. In Washington the Lebanese President warned his hosts that if the U.S. did not persuade both Israel and Syria to withdraw their troops from Lebanon soon, his fragile government could collapse. Gemayel also expressed his opposition to Israel's redeployment plan. Said he: "The partial withdrawal gives the impression, unfortunately, and I can't believe it, that the U.S. effort has failed...
...tumult of applause, Yuri Andropov's strained face stared ahead without a smile. Hurriedly, the leadership pushed through the session's most important item of business. After an effusive nominating speech by Konstantin Chernenko, Andropov's principal rival on the Politburo, the delegates voted unanimously to confer upon Andropov the ceremonial but authoritative post of President of the Soviet Union...
President Bok will confer honorary degrees this morning on one woman and five men, including Katharine Graham, the chairman of the board of the Washington Post company, and Meyer Schapiro, one of the world's foremost art critics and historians...
President Bok this morning will confer honorary degrees...
...from Lebanon any time soon, it will press ahead in its dealings with Syria, hoping to find out precisely what Assad's price is. At the same time, the Reagan Administration is trying to persuade moderate Arabs to lend a hand. Shultz stopped over in Saudi Arabia to confer with King Fahd, but the Saudis emerged later with a rather grumpy pronouncement that they would not serve as anyone's "tool." Translation: With their characteristic caution, which often borders on gutlessness, the Saudis are waiting for others to do the work for them. That message came through when...