Word: formalities
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After a somber and sometimes impassioned debate, the House of Representatives last week voted 243 to 141 to issue a formal apology to the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were forcibly sent to resettlement camps in World War II. In addition, the resolution provides $50 million for a fund to educate the public about the detainment program and a controversial $1.2 billion in restitution payments to the approximately 60,000 survivors of the camps...
...Ames upset prepared the stage for Robertson's Tuesday press conference announcing the success of his yearlong petition drive. Standing before a pile of what he said was 3.3 million signatures, Robertson declared, "The people are urging me to run." He will, he said. The formal announcement is scheduled for Oct. 1 in New York City...
...home of Industrialist James Deering. Security remained tight both inside and outside the residence. Before the talks, frogmen made an underwater search of fetid Biscayne Bay. John Paul and President Reagan met inside the dwelling without even a translator for nearly an hour, then strolled through the villa's formal gardens. Reagan later told waiting journalists that the two had shared views on the "progress of genuine peace in Central America," on arms control and on the issue of more assistance from rich to poor nations. Echoing his words to Jimmy Carter in 1979, the Pope declared, "The more powerful...
There was a little less concord on some political issues. Rabbi Mordecai Waxman, speaking for the Jewish attendees, urged once again that "full and formal diplomatic relation relations be established soon between the Vatican and the state of Israel." John Paul replied that the "Jewish people . . . have a right to a homeland, as does any civil nation." But the same principle "also applies to the Palestinian people, so many of whom remain homeless and refugees...
...Kohl towered eight inches over his guest, leading police escorts to dub the pair Big Man and Little Man. Despite his height advantage, Kohl later complained that he had developed a visceral aversion to his guest, who "physically gave me the jitters." Honecker, spry at 75 but stiff and formal around Kohl, visibly relaxed as he toured four of West Germany's eleven states. He softened his rhetoric, at one point predicting that the border between East and West Germany will one day "no longer divide us but unite us." The most touching moment came when Honecker arrived in Wiebelskirchen...