Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About a week after the first Princeton demonstration, Columbia University's Philolexian Society, a group that weekly debates controversial issues, held a public reading of passages from the book at the center of Columbia's campus...
...Ukrainian Republic it appeared that at least 40 of 175 districts would have only one candidate on the ballot. Gorbachev made a hasty trip to the region, where he exhorted citizens and party officials to make better use of their democratic rights. Speaking to a group of coal miners in Donetsk, the Soviet leader warned that his reform program needed the Ukraine's support. Said he: "If every republic doesn't make its contribution, then of course perestroika will slip into neutral...
...made of sterner stuff than that. The very next day the Iranian revolutionary leader, 88, issued a statement rejecting Rushdie's apology and declaring flatly, "It is incumbent on every Muslim to do everything possible to send him to hell." Three days later, in a speech to a group of Iranian clerics, Khomeini added that nothing, not even Western economic sanctions, would "force us to retreat and forgo implementation of God's decree...
...parental argument is: "Eat it. It's good for you." This week a new study charges that all too often what is on the plate or in the glass may not be good for you at all. In fact, reports the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental group based in New York City, farm produce sold in U.S. supermarkets and greengroceries may contain so much pesticide that it poses a serious hazard to the health of the nation's 22 million preschoolers...
...agreement reached by the guerrillas impressed U.S. and Pakistani observers, but the unity may prove fleeting. A rival group of mujahedin based in Iran opposed the council's choices. Mojaddedi nonetheless called on other countries to recognize the interim rebel government, which he predicted would be functioning inside Afghanistan within a month, "God willing...