Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Facing the almost certain victory of the right-wing, death squad-linked ARENA party in this month's presidential elections, the Salvadoran leftist guerrillas have offered to end the war. In return they have requested a six-month delay in the elections, allowing them time to organize for and participate in the presidential race. Despite anticipated outrage from the right, the centrist President Duarte has offered a compromise six-week extension...
Earlier yesterday, Eastern asked a federal judge in Miami to order members of the Air Lines Pilots Association (ALPA) to return to work. The ALPA, meanwhile, announced plans for a job action starting this morning that could delay every flight on every airline in the nation...
Quizzed behind closed doors, Weyrich was unable to cite specific incidents of Tower's misbehavior, but the genie was out of the bottle. The committee was inundated by telephone calls, many anonymous, reporting "sightings" of Tower misbehaving in public. The White House asked Nunn to delay a committee vote while some of the accusations were being checked out by the FBI. Referring to the leaks to the press, Tower privately protested, "They've practically got me dancing naked on top of a piano...
...talks between El Salvador's rebels and its political parties, including the ultra-right ARENA, ended near Mexico City last week without a breakthrough. Yet in offering to lay down their arms and join "the political life of the country" in exchange for military reforms and a six-month delay in the presidential elections scheduled for March 19, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) clearly scored a coup. By advancing a negotiable proposal, the rebels managed to put the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government -- and especially the army -- on the defensive...
Third Period--9, H, Young 29 (Donato, Bourbeau) 4:57; 10, H, MacDonald 24 (Caplan, Young). Penalties--H, Caplan (holding) :47; R, Casalena (slashing) 3:49; R, Townshend (butt-ending and game suspension) 6:41; R, Bench (delay of game) 6:41; H, Weisbrod (tripping and 10:00 misconduct) 13:26; R, Casalena (slashing) 13:26; R, Kummu (holding) 13:57; H, Hartje (interference...