Word: joining
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...Dutch organization, the Ansus-Foundation, to overthrow the Surinamese government. He and his henchmen apparently planned to pose as financiers interested in opening a bank and then kidnap several of the country's leftist leaders. The FBI agent later agreed to provide ten mercenaries along with various weapons and join up with the six soldiers of fortune recruited by Denley. Last week FBI and Customs Service agents arrested 14 individuals, including Denley, a former U.S. Customs officer. Agents found 13 handguns, two semiautomatic rifles, two shotguns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as a Fodor's guidebook opened...
...real aim of the U.S.F.L. owners may have been not to beat their N.F.L. rivals but to join them. At the very least, figured some U.S.F.L. owners, the older league might be persuaded to take in the most prosperous franchises or even agree to a merger that would sweep in the whole U.S.F.L. There was precedent, after all: the N.F.L. in 1950 absorbed the best teams in the fledgling All-America Football Conference and then in 1966 merged outright with the arrivistes of the American Football League...
...writing in angry response to the article published July 11 entitled "Soviets Join Americans in Teaching Exchange," in which I was badly misrepresented. As a member of the board of directors of the organization which arranged the Soviet Teacher Exchange, and in fact as a member of the delegation which first delivered the proposal to Moscow, I am strongly in favor of the exchange and its potential for greater cooperation in language teaching and delighted that it could be implemented so quickly. Yet the remarks attributed to me in the article gave exactly the opposite impression. The quotations were taken...
...improbable that a credible black leader will agree to join the council. Some from the so-called self-governing homelands, for whom seats will be reserved, might do so, but their participation would keep out antiapartheid activists who consider them collaborators. The most important homeland leader, KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, says he will take part only if he receives a "massive mandate" from his political organization, Inkatha, and if imprisoned Black Nationalist Nelson Mandela is freed and offered a chance to join...
While Navratilova enjoyed her return, another Czechoslovak sports figure headed the other way. Michal Pivonka, 20, a center on the national ice-hockey team, appeared in the U.S. to announce that he was defecting to join the Washington Capitals. "My ambition is to play in the National Hockey League," said Pivonka. "I can hardly wait for the season to begin." He was the second Czechoslovak hockey player to defect in a week: four days earlier, Defenseman Frantisek Musil had joined the Minnesota North Stars...