Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actually occur, would almost certainly never involve them, I could have some respect for their strategy. Maybe if they would be as outspoken in their condemnation of human rights abuses perpetrated by the left as they are of those committed by the right, I could admire what they did last week. But they haven...
...Saturday, November 4, five people claiming to be members of an organization called "The Cambridge Radical Group," attacked the station, forcing WHRB to go off the air for about fourteen hours, officials said last week...
...Inaugural Address last January, George Bush obliquely appealed to Iran to work with him for the release of nine American hostages held by Islamic groups in Lebanon. Since then the U.S. and Iran have carried on a delicate game of winks and nods, feints and gestures. The game sometimes requires both sides, for their own reasons, to pretend that they are not actually playing. And for the Americans, there is always the suspicion that the Iranian aloofness is for real...
Nonetheless, a subdued hope of movement surrounded the news last week that the U.S. had consented to repay $567 million in frozen Iranian assets. The agreement was reached after two days of negotiations between State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer and a senior adviser to Iran's President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The two met in the Hague, site of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal that was set up as part of the 1981 deal that freed the 62 American embassy hostages in Tehran. Both sides agreed that Iran will be paid most of the balance remaining...
Iran has several times linked any effort on behalf of the hostages to the release of Iranian assets. It calculates those to be worth far more than the amount unfrozen last week, including perhaps what it claims are $12 billion in weapons purchased from the U.S. but never delivered. So the Iranians' public response to the deal in the Hague was lukewarm. Perhaps leery of giving domestic hard-liners grounds to charge that the Islamic republic is negotiating with the Great Satan, Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmoud Vaezi described the deal as a decision made by the Hague tribunal...