Word: joining
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...College L. Fred Jewett '57 undoubtably draws upon information learned while writing his government honors thesis on "The Importance of Diplomatic Procedures: A Case Study of the European Concert in the Near East 1894-1898." Jewett's thesis, like the others noted here, all were good enough to join the elite collection stored for eternity in the Harvard archives...
...supplement his $83,000 federal pension, O'Neill recently signed a contract to deliver six speeches a year at $20,000 each. He has a $1.5 million deal with Random House for his autobiography, which is due out this fall. He turned down invitations to join the boards of three major corporations. O'Neill has also spurned offers to appear in an American Express commercial and on Hollywood Squares, and to play a judge on Superior Court. Says he: "I am trying not to exploit the office of Speaker. If people are still interested in me in six months, then...
...After seven years of a Moscow-backed civil war with Muslim guerrillas, the government began a six-month cease-fire, called by Afghan Communist Party Leader Najibullah. Fifty foreign correspondents were taken on carefully planned tours of Kabul the day Najibullah appeared on television to plead with rebels to join the cease-fire...
...dead and wounded. Privately, U.S. officials say they are convinced that Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, frustrated by the expensive military stalemate and eager to bolster the ailing Soviet economy, is anxious to bring his soldiers home from Afghanistan. The question facing Gorbachev is how. The rebels refuse to join a government that is not independent, while the Soviets want a regime friendly to Moscow. "Gorbachev cannot afford just to walk away," says a senior U.S. diplomat, "and the Afghan rebels will not be snowed by phony reconciliation...
Says Miller, who has returned to Colorado for a short time: "When I decided to join the Jewish people, I thought innocently that I was making a strictly personal commitment. But to my disappointment, I found myself at the center of an acute public controversy. I have undergone bitter experiences that are not easy to forget...