Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballot-stuffing and a host of other irregularities--including the fact that the government vice president was not an enrolled student--rendered illegitimate the previous election, held in mid-October, according to a report by an ad hoc committee formed by the Student Assembly...
Jonathan E. Martin said that he decided to propose the committee, which he called the Ad Hoc Class of 1988 Committee against Apartheid, to get seniors to work together on South Africa-related issues...
...Manila, Aquino was feisty, sarcastic and uncommonly firm. Said the President: "The question you all really want to ask is Can she hack it? Isn't she weak?" She proceeded to argue that she was strong. "Henceforth, I shall rule directly as President," said Aquino. "To the ad hoc committees and commissions created to inform me on their special areas, I add one more: an action committee of one member...
...protesting the status of women in the church at the Vatican embassy in Washington. The gay Catholic group Dignity plans a vigil in Detroit to pray for the Pope's enlightenment on lesbian and gay rights issues. In Los Angeles, feminist, homosexual and atheist groups have formed an ad hoc alliance to stage a vigil outside the parish house of St. Vibiana's Cathedral, where the Pope will be staying, in hopes that their chanting will keep him awake all night...
Nonetheless, the Army's top command -- particularly Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer and Vice Chief General John Vessey -- had become committed to secret operations. When the Reagan Administration took office, the generals made the new ad hoc groups permanent. In early 1981 Colonel James Longhofer, who had worked on Honey Badger, was assigned to head an expanded office of special operations to oversee various types of unconventional missions. One of its field units was Seaspray, jointly commanded by the Army and the CIA, which took over the special helicopters developed for the Iran rescue mission. The Pentagon dutifully briefed...