Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formal education and natural eloquence made him an obvious spokesman for the black community. He entered into a bitter dispute with Booker T. Washington, who felt that blacks should forego political and social equality and instead concentrate their efforts upon the development of technical skills...
During the conference's formal sessions, Ford and the European heads of state will discuss a variety of mutual concerns. Among them are U.S. negotiations with the Soviet Union to limit nuclear arms, European talks with the Soviets to reduce troop levels along the Iron Curtain, and the Soviet desire for a conference of 35 nations this fall to ratify European borders as established by World War II. But two items at the top of Ford's list of priorities will not even appear on the formal agenda: the dispute between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus...
...Washington Post played the formal white-tie dinner for the Shah of Iran as if Jackie Kennedy had given it. Even Reporter Sally Quinn, late of CBS and a kind of Catherine the Great of the Post newsroom, took enthusiastic notice in a lengthy and detailed article on the Shah's interlude in Ford's Washington. And one White House aide said with some pride that "the power brokers damned near broke down the White House door trying to get invitations to the Ford dinner...
...protests lodged at the Laotian Foreign Ministry by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Christian A. Chapman did no good. In fact, the Laotian Cabinet-still nominally under the leadership of the neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma -legitimized the students' demands by insisting that the U.S. end all but formal diplomatic activity in Laos and that it turn over to the government all USAID material in the country. Left with no choice but compliance, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger announced that there will be a "substantial reduction" of U.S. personnel in Laos...
Keenan said yesterday that with the completion of the report Harvard's formal connection with the Iranian school ends, but he added that it is "only a prudent expectation" that Harvard faculty and administrators will individually be involved in the school's board of governors and the foundation...