Word: duals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty four dual meets after it started, the Harvard women's cross country squad's consecutive victory streak came to an end Saturday...
...Vatican is not satisfied with the responses, which are due late next week, the priests could be suspended. The priests claim not to be eager for a showdown, but their position leaves little room for further compromise. Said D'Escoto of his dual role as priest and politician: "There is no conflict. I am serving my people...
...real decrease in defense spending rather than a modest rise (2,592 to 1,128); and the elimination of runoff primaries when no candidate receives a majority in the first vote (2,501 to 1,253). The intensity of black feeling over the dual-primary issue was demonstrated in almost brutal fashion when Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young spoke against the Jackson plank. Other black delegates booed and shouted throughout Young's brief speech. "You damn turncoat!" screamed one black delegate. "Uncle Tom!" cried another. Sweating profusely, Young looked shaken as he left the podium...
...agreed not to resist Hart's one floor motion, which sought to ban the use of U.S. troops, particularly in the Persian Gulf, until after all negotiations had failed and only if U.S. security was at stake. In return, Hart instructed his delegates to vote against the Jackson dual-primary plank. In an earlier unifying move, Mondale had agreed to let Hart address the convention on Wednesday night, right before the nomination balloting was scheduled to begin...
...space-based systems designed to destroy ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads. To the Soviets' apparent surprise, the Administration responded with a qualified yes, but it defined the agenda differently. National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane said that the U.S. would also insist on discussing ways to reopen the dual talks on Strategic Arms Reduction (START) and Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF), which the Soviets abandoned late last year after NATO began deploying U.S. missiles in Europe. Although this was partly a political ploy, it made sense. Satellites are part of each nation's nuclear capability. Antisatellite weapons or space...