Word: dues
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothing else, the month-long international conference in Paris dramatizes the importance and complexity of events in Cambodia. After more than ten years of occupation, Vietnamese troops are due to pull out next month. At issue in Paris is what happens next -- a new round of civil war or a coalition government? And should a coalition include the Khmer Rouge, the murderous ultra-Maoists whom the Vietnamese drove into the jungle...
...sued GTE in September 1987, charging that a fouled-up GTE phone system had cost it $388 million in profits. GTE countersued, saying the losses were due to mismanagement and that HSN's press release complaining about GTE's phone service amounted to libel. HSN, arguing that the suit and countersuit should have been tried separately, plans to appeal. Says general counsel Nando DiFilippo: "We are confident that HSN will prevail...
...tested on Thursday morning, when the kidnapers turned the screws further with the release of a videotape in which Cicippio read a statement urging quick action for the release of Obeid. The tape ended with Cicippio painfully bidding farewell to his wife. But just 45 minutes before he was due to be executed, Hizballah lifted its death threat indefinitely, though with the condition that it was now seeking release of further prisoners...
...Bloch was still presumed innocent? His case may indeed prove to be the most serious spy scandal to come out of the State Department since the Alger Hiss affair. But, wrote columnist Lars-Erik Nelson of the New York Daily News, Bloch "is also a U.S. citizen, entitled to due process before execution." Charles Schmitz, vice president of the American Foreign Service Association, said the baying after Bloch was "terrible either way -- for his rights if innocent, for the case if guilty...
Only in terms of the voting booth and the lunch-counter stool is there much truth to support this common white view. As A Common Destiny makes clear, "a considerable amount of remaining black-white inequality is due to continuing discriminatory treatment of blacks. The clearest evidence is in housing...