Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missed. On her arrival in Hong Kong Sunday, on the last leg of a two-week Asian tour, the Prime Minister faced a barrage of local criticism that she had got off on the wrong foot in the opening round of Sino-British talks over the future of the crown colony...
...Citing unnamed Vatican sources, Kalb reports that the Pope sent a special envoy to the Kremlin in August 1980, while Poland was in the grip of a nationwide strike. The envoy allegedly gave Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev a handwritten letter from the Pope, who threatened to "lay down the crown of St. Peter" and return home to join the resistance if the Soviets moved against Poland. After a series of diplomatic shuttles between Moscow, Warsaw and Rome, says NBC, the papal envoy persuaded the Soviets to acquiesce in the Gdansk agreement that gave birth to Solidarity. Exasperated by the Pope...
According to Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, "MIT is now wearing the crown as the biggest land plunderer of the century...
Hillel was right about the Arab summit's appearing to be more judicious in its response to Reagan. Last year an Arab conference broke up after only 5½ hours because it could not agree on whether to support the peace plan proposed by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd, who has since become King. The Fahd plan implied that Israel had a right to exist, something the hard-line states, like Syria and Iraq, strongly opposed. This year the Arab leaders debated a similar plan for the best part of four days, and reached an agreement, although it was more...
...Right now, we don't have much time for the war against Harvard, because MIT is now wearing the crown of biggest plunderer of the century...