Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Emboldened by vodka, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra demanded of Ustinov, "Are you with us to the end, or will you abandon us to the U.S.?" According to an exSandinista official, Ustinov stared back in stony silence and ignored the question. The next day, however, the Nicaraguans received a formal note from the Foreign Ministry saying that the Soviet Union would honor its ties of friendship and cooperation with the people of Nicaragua. But in the final analysis, the note added, Nicaragua's last line of defense would be Nicaragua...
...same year, Congress passed the International Emergency Powers Act, which requires the President to consult with Congress to declare a formal State of Emergency before restricting travel or other actions of Americans in a foreign country...
...help in that education, NIS team members must continue to organize support for the project even though their formal role is largely over participants say. Susskind is confident there is enough momentum from the project to carry it through, but most observers are taking a want and see attitude. The beautification work is the most noticeable result of the project to date, and most are reserving judgement to see how many of the other proposals actually come to fruition
...federal judge to serve five to 15 months in prison and pay a $40,000 fine for filing false financial-disclosure statements to Congress. Last week the House Ethics Committee delivered a different rap, this one to Hansen's knuckles as it recommended that he suffer the formal reprimand of the full House for his crimes. During that hearing, the unrepentant Hansen exclaimed, "I should have robbed a bank! I would have had the money, and not as big a penalty...
Mitterrand's working session with Chernenko was stiff and formal: the leaders each read from prepared drafts, but there was no give-and-take. Only just before the banquet did the two withdraw for an hourlong private discussion. Mitterrand later described Chernenko, who appeared frail but not perceptibly ill, as an informed, nimble and animated interlocutor, with more autonomy than Mitterrand had previously thought...