Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Christopher returned to the Algerian capital on Jan. 8 with a new dispatch for Tehran. After transmitting the message, he decided to stay an extra day or two just in case something might happen. It did. More questions arrived from Tehran on Jan. 10, and then the rush of negotiations continued unabated...
...Washington, the renewed U.S. aid, and especially the dispatch of U.S. personnel for training and the maintenance of sophisticated equipment, raised edgy questions about the wisdom of direct U.S. involvement in the Salvadoran conflict. The junta is already sensitive to accusations that it is being propped up by the U.S., and to comparisons with the U.S.-backed regime in South Viet...
...Solidarity. From a ragtag bunch of shipyard workers and dissidents, it has grown into a labor leviathan, with an estimated 10 million members (out of 17.3 million employed) in 54 chapters around the country. When a strike loomed in Warsaw, no less than Deputy Prime Minister Jagielski offered to dispatch a government helicopter to Gdansk to pick up Lech Walesa. Solidarity has even acquired a modicum of official respectability. To raise funds, it has sponsored a benefit performance at the National Opera House and auctions at the National Gallery...
...official Soviet news agency, warned that "counterrevolutionary groups" within Solidarity were turning to "open confrontation" with the Polish Communist Party and with factory and office administrators. At the Iskra ball bearing and spark plug factory in Kielce, TASS charged, workers had ousted the management and disarmed security guards. The dispatch, which originated in Warsaw, also said that officials of the pro-party trade unions had been replaced by "persons who openly adhere to antigovernment positions." Both Solidarity and the official Polish press denied the story...
...favorite pair of comedians (excluding the team of George Bush and Billy Carter) answering your questions, pronouncing your name in print! Ask Cheech! Ask Chong! Just send your questions, whether weird or wise, to Cheech and Chong Quizmaster, Ampersand, 1680 N. Vine, Suite 201, Hollywood, CA 90028. We'll dispatch a hard-boiled, hard-nosed, maybe even hard-of-hearing journalist to Columbia Pictures, where Cheech & Chong will soon film Cheech & Chong's Columbia Project; we'll make those guys answer 20 of the best questions submitted (our choice, and that's final). What's more, Cheech & Chong will send...