Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aubuisson's populist rhetoric contrasted sharply with his reputation as a right-wing extremist. The boyish-looking onetime Salvadoran police major, now 40, has consistently tried to delay implementation of U.S.-sponsored efforts at land reform in El Salvador. Last November, D'Aubuisson was refused an entry visa to the U.S., a rebuff linked to his alleged ties to the country's nefarious right-wing death squads. For the present, however, he wishes to appear a man of the people, and is running hard in a long-awaited presidential-election campaign that is crucial both...
...Sarajevo airport, for instance, is absurd. Fog rolls in almost every day just in time to delay or cancel the plane from Belgrade. A radar landing system was installed recently, but pilots who have managed to reach the city say that it often does not work. Landing-strip lights wink out during the nation's power brownouts. Trains sound like a good idea, but one New York visitor learned to his bafflement that it is not possible while still outside Yugoslavia to book a first-class train seat for a journey within Yugoslavia?Zagreb to Sarajevo, for example...
...during an election year is abhorrent to politicians. That is why Congress has been moving inexorably toward repeal of controversial access charges on long-distance telephone service that were due to go into effect on April 3. Last week, bowing to the inevitable, the Federal Communications Commission decided to delay the charges until next year for individuals and many small businesses...
...local service. The new fees were to help replace that subsidy. But the House last November passed a bill striking down most access charges, and the Senate was preparing to pass its version of the bill. Before the Senate got around to voting, the FCC announced its move. The delay will not affect companies with more than one phone; they will still have to pay the new charges...
...PLEASED that the majority has condemned the University's discipline of a select few of the protestors at Caspar W. Weinberger '38's November address. Certainly this action reeks of selectivism, political repression, and undue delay...