Word: hiatuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vance's visit ended a long hiatus in top-level contacts between Moscow and Washington since the détente era began five years ago. Apart from an inconclusive meeting between former President Gerald Ford and Gromyko, the two sides had not sat down at a negotiating table since January 1976. U.S.Soviet relations, which progressively soured last year after pro-Moscow forces won the Angolan civil war, have not been helped by Carter's championship of human rights in general and Soviet dissidents in particular...
University and union negotiators sat down at the bargaining table yesterday after a three-week hiatus that a federal mediator recommended to allow Harvard to re-evaluate its police administration procedures...
Last week, after a two-month hiatus, the mild-mannered accountant returned to France from the Greek island of Corfu-tanned, newly bearded and quite penniless. Locked up in Paris' La Santé prison, he faces trial in an affair that has become as labyrinthine as the maze of catacombs that lies under the jail...
...makeshift courtroom in Luanda's sandstone Chamber of Commerce building, where they went on trial last month, the 13 British and American mercenaries gathered after a nine-day hiatus in the proceedings, during which the five-member revolutionary tribunal had deliberated their fate. Optimism ran reasonably high among Angolan, British and American defense lawyers, even though Prosecutor Manuel Rui Monteiro had demanded death for all. In his marathon summation (3 hr. 20 min.), Monteiro had blasted the U.S. and British governments more than the mercenaries. He branded the U.S. as "the home of the CIA and the mother...
...William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell, who voted against finding the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment in 1972, will continue to hold to that position. If new Justice John Paul Stevens joins them or if either Potter Stewart or Byron White switches sides, then the nine-year nationwide executions hiatus will be near...