Word: dismissingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...security accord is approved, the President will have gained merely a little more time to study his options, not a full license to keep the Marines in Beirut through the election year. White House aides dismiss the possibility of a complete pullout right away, saying it would cause the Gemayel government to fall and lead to the permanent partitioning of Lebanon. At the same time, the aides are increasingly skeptical about the possibility of moving the troops away from the Beirut airport. To begin with, any redeployment would be discussed with Congress, which would only inflame the debate over whether...
...Margaret Heckler, 52, Secretary of Health and Human Services and former Massachusetts Congresswoman (1967-82): John Heckler, 56, austere, hunt-loving Boston financier; after 30 years of marriage, three children; in Arlington, Va. Heckler said his wife "deserted and abandoned" him in 1963. Secretary Heckler asked the court to dismiss his suit...
...detailed but sometimes conflicting recollections of a labyrinthine plot involving the Bulgarians, right-wing Turks and, ultimately, the Soviet KGB. Agca claims that Antonov drove him to St. Peter's Square on the day of the shooting. Italian investigators are trying to decide whether to indict Antonov or dismiss the case...
...this year. But the budgets are lurching upward. Since April, Congress has appropriated $140 million in special aid. New York City's expenditures on its 60,000 homeless people more than doubled this year, to $135 million. Officials at all levels seem to be scrambling to address-or dismiss-the problem. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese caused a furor last week by dubiously claiming that "people go to soup kitchens because the food is free and that's easier than paying for it." In San Francisco, declares Deputy Mayor Bo-tea Gilford, the homeless are "the most difficult problem...
Officials in Washington had tended to dismiss most of these moves as propaganda ploys. They noted that the Sandinista decrees specifically rule out any participation by counterrevolutionary guerrilla leaders in the electoral process as well as by anyone who had invited "foreign intervention" in Nicaragua. That, of course, meant that the varied factions of armed contra insurgents, most of whom have been fighting the government with ill-concealed CIA support, would be left out in the cold. Washington also says it considers the promise of elections in 1985 all too vague...