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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speculation continued to mount yesterday over whom President Bok will confer honorary degrees on at Thursday's Commencement ceremonies...

Author: By Coolidge K. Calhoun, | Title: Guesses Abound For Honoraries | 6/3/1980 | See Source »

Many hostage families have formed an organization named FLAG (Family Liaison Action Group). "It's for psychological reasons as much as for anything else," says Louisa Kennedy, FLAG spokeswoman and wife of State Department Officer Moorhead C. Kennedy. Members of the group confer occasionally with White House aides, and were briefed on Monday just before Carter announced the steps he was taking. FLAG plans to help the families deal with the complicated financial and legal problems stemming from the takeover of the embassy, including the possibility of bringing suits to get damages from the frozen Iranian assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hope and Fear | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...million Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Concerned that the May 26 goal for the autonomy talks, as set by the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, was fast approaching, Carter last month had invited both Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to confer with him separately in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Now Comes the Hard Part | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...University in its announcement of the purchase pledged "to confer with neighborhood groups and city officials" before deciding what to build on the site

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Harvard Pays $4 Million For Possible Housing Site | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...Tanaka visited China to begin Japan's formal recognition of Peking, and China was voted into the United Nations. Before the end of the decade, the United States had added its formal recognition and American officials were busy at work clearing up the various entanglements of frozen assets to confer most-favored-nation status on China. For Americans the initial exoticism and Pollyannish reporting began to fade after several years as thousands of American traveled to China each year, including several hundred scholars who would remain beyond a quick tourist trip, and several hundred businessmen who hoped for opportunities from...

Author: By Ezra F. Vogel, | Title: The East Asian Miracle | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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