Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place in front of the U.S. embassy while their talks went on. A Russian woman, Irina McClellan, married to an American professor of Russian history at the University of Virginia, chained herself to an embassy fence to protest a four-year Soviet refusal to give her a visa to join her husband. The woman was arrested and held for three hours, then released. Soviet authorities blocked transmission of U.S. wire-service photos of the incident and prevented CBS from sending satellite pictures of the woman chained to the fence. The next day, embassy officials formally protested the interference, and Vance...
...Brown University has something to offer you: two exceptional sophomores would like to invite you to join us for dinner at your home," the letters said...
...troops expected to join the force in Lebanon, about half were in place last week. Their ambitious mission is to restore "peace and security and ensure the return of the effective authority in the area to the government of Lebanon." The aim, in other words, is to give the Lebanese government of President Elias Sarkis a chance to build up its own army, which has only 3,000 men today v. 17,000 before Lebanon's civil war broke out three years ago. If U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim has his way, UNIFIL will gradually be disbanded...
...squeezed, middle-class homeowner often reaps little or nothing from the rise in value of his house; if he sells, he will have to buy another that probably costs even more for the same or less room. Many of the poor have been denied the opportunity to join the middle class because the cost of doing so keeps going up. The federally defined poverty line for an urban family of four has risen from $3,968 in 1970 to an estimated...
...HARVARD CORPORATION meets today to decide its policy on the more than 60 portfolio companies which have operations in South Africa. All socially responsible members of the University community should join in the United Front-sponsored demonstration in front of the Corporation's headquarters this afternoon to protest Harvard's financial complicity in the maintenance of the apartheid regime's systematic repression of the social, political and economic rights of non-whites in South Africa...