Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supporters the issue was one of political persecution. Reacting to what she viewed as ominous pressure to join the Communist Party, 19-year-old Chinese Tennis Star Hu Na one night last July slipped out of a California hotel during a tennis tour and went into hiding at a friend's home. But to Peking the issue was a critical test of Chinese-American relations. Worried that Washington might grant Hu Na political asylum, ViceChairman Deng Xiaoping urged the U.S. last August to consider "the greater interests of the relations between the two countries...
...Social Democratic Party, the largest contributor to the organization, Brandt has used his party's bureaucracy and his personal prestige to expand the movement's influence in the Third World. He has got 16 leftist movements and parties, including those of Guatemala, Venezuela and Costa Rica, to join. But, to the dismay of some of his colleagues, he has imprinted the Socialist International with his own ideological stamp. The Socialist International routinely condemns human rights abuses in South Africa or South Korea, but delegations heading for East European capitals often steer away from controversial subjects. When Poland...
...This is a unique moment, which I must be seized before it is lost." Those were the words of State Department Spokesman John Hughes last week, as he called again upon Israel and the Arab states to join in peace negotiations proposed by President Reagan last September to settle the destiny of 1.3 million Palestinians who live in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. King Hussein of Jordan had indicated his willingness to consider joining the peace process, but only if he had the backing of the Palestine Liberation Organization. After four meetings in the Jordanian capital...
Coles stressed the importance for faculty members to join in the effort. "They can help by giving moral of financial support," he said, adding, "If we can't come together around this then I don't know what we can come together...
...widely acclaimed novel Night, and most recently, William Styron examined the trauma of a mother forced to determine the fate of her children in Sophie's Choice. It should come as no surprise therefore that as a Jewish initiate into the world of fiction, Sheila Levin attempts to join the ranks of the guilt-ridden with her first novel, Simple Truths...