Word: jointed
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...proposal advocated a vote "in response to the worsening situation in South Africa, and in order to clarify the current position of this Board for the Corporation, the joint committee, and for the Harvard community as a whole," it reads in part...
...Overseers Executive Committee then made the decision to divert the divestment issue to the Standing Committee on Institutional Policy to decide how the Board should proceed. The Standing Committee recommended in March that the Board not vote on divestment, but instead form a joint committee with the Corporation to discuss the divestment issue...
...down vote on the question. Bok's top advisor, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, was dispatched to lobby Overseers on why such a vote would be ill-advised. Then the University managed to find an even better plan: to divert the question to a joint committee of the Corporation and the Board. Scheduling difficulties should ensure that the committee's reccomendation on the issue will not be made until next fall...
When the discussions ended, Gorbachev and Najibullah were all smiles. A joint communique declared with notable finality, "The last obstacles to concluding the agreements have now been removed." It stated that the withdrawal of the first Soviet units could still begin on May 15. The next day, at the United Nations-mediated talks in Geneva between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the gloom of recent weeks lifted almost instantly. Diego Cordovez, the U.N. troubleshooter who has shepherded the negotiations for the past six years, emerged from morning sessions with Afghan and Pakistani diplomats and told reporters, "We have discussed; we have negotiated...
...which has suffered Afghan air and artillery attacks along the border as well as terror bombings in retribution for Islamabad's support for the mujahedin, the response to Gorbachev's concession was more clear-cut. Legislators thumped their desks in approval as President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq told a joint session of the parliament that a Soviet pullout was imminent. He called the development the "miracle of the 20th century, God willing...