Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Burr said the parties had agreed to withhold details until the formal announcement...
While the Harvard UAW and the HUCTW are both vying for workers support, the UAW has not courts "formal motions of support" from undergraduate student groups, Rahke said...
...confused and contradictory situation was greeted with gloomy silence by the Reagan Administration, which had worked hard to try to ensure a free, fair and, above all, credible outcome to the balloting. In Washington, State Department officials said that they would delay any formal U.S. response to the election until this week. Nonetheless, Spokesman Bernard Kalb took note of the reports of fraud and violence and termed them "regrettable." Privately, one Administration official disclosed that he and his colleagues were observing the Philippine developments with "nausea." Said he: "Marcos is running scared. He is letting it all hang...
...Saturday she called a press conference to demand that Marcos concede "in the best tradition of democratic politics." Three hours later, the President held a press conference of his own to reiterate his claim to victory, by a new margin of 1.5 million votes. He reminded journalists that the formal naming of a winner was the responsibility of the National Assembly, which he controls, and even raised the vague possibility that he might declare the whole election invalid...
...publicity abroad, Soviet authorities moved against Shcharansky. His 1978 trial was a major step in the Kremlin's systematic destruction of human-rights groups. To frighten other Soviet citizens from informing foreigners about dissident activities, the prosecution charged Shcharansky with spying for the U.S. Although President Carter issued a formal denial that Shcharansky had ever been employed by American intelligence, he was sentenced to three years in prison and ten in labor camps...