Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confined to the city of Leningrad, the Panovs said last week that they had gone on a hunger strike "to the end." In New York, an emergency committee, including Mike Nichols, Beverly Sills, Joanne Woodward and Hal Prince, has set out to use concern over the Panovs' fate to influence the Russians to release them. One obvious leverage point is the proposed 1974 visit of the Kirov Ballet to the U.S., which could be boycotted by an aroused public...
...possibility of impeachment loomed more seriously, the fate of Ford's nomination as Vice President became more urgent. Rodino said that the Democratic majority on the House Judiciary Committee had decided to proceed with hearings on Ford simultaneously with its impeachment inquiry. While no timetable was set, the Democratic majority wants to cushion the impact of possible impeachment by keeping the White House in Republican hands and assuring the continuation of Nixon's general foreign and domestic policies. Ford's elevation also would avert a bitter partisan fight over succession; Speaker Albert has no longing for the presidency. The Senate...
...peace negotiations as well. Even before last week's eyeballing, Kissinger said at his press conference, he and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin had been holding preliminary conversations about "the site, the participation and the procedures" of talks. Both sides, declared Kissinger, have an opportunity "to determine their own fate in consultation and negotiation-for the first time in 25 years...
...have just completed the poem and score of Les Troyens, an opera in five acts," wrote Hector Berlioz in his memoirs in 1858. "What is to become of this immense work?" There was enough realism in Berlioz's idealistic nature for him to know full well that the fate of Les Troyens lay, in more ways than one, in the hands of the gods. Little did he know that they would decree a century of neglect...
...another procedural issue could influence the fate of Graham's GRO slate. The annual student registration controversy prompted at least preliminary inquiries by the state Attorney General's office this year. Many students have claimed that the city Election Commission has arbitrarily denied them the right to vote here...