Word: march
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...height of the apple panic that the Chilean fruit phobia began. The first phone call to the U.S. embassy in Santiago was followed by a more serious one on March 9. The caller said he had read in a Santiago paper that his threat was being treated as a hoax. Be warned, he said, it was no hoax. Fifty FDA inspectors were dispatched to the Almeria Star as it docked in Philadelphia. They set up tables along the pier and began examining 1,200 cases of grapes for softness, discoloration and the telltale welds caused by punctures. By Sunday...
...Meryl Streep testified before a packed Senate Labor and Human Resources subcommittee hearing on Alar's use, "Even now, we don't know what's on our food . . . I no longer want my children to be part of this experiment." An ad campaign starring Streep began airing on March...
However incontrovertible the logic, even Baker admits the Administration will have no Nicaraguan policy "without Congress being a full partner." Last week he met privately with key congressional leaders to urge that support for the contras, scheduled to run out on March 31, be extended at the rate of about $4 million a month. The Democrats haven't said yes yet, but they have been willing to listen. "There's a lot more trust with these guys than there ever was with the Reagan crowd," says Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, a persistent critic of Reagan's Central America policy...
...Transvaal province leader, Frederik W. de Klerk, 53, was elected to succeed him on the same day, puzzled party chiefs finally concluded that Botha was signaling his intention to retire. So they were shocked once again by Botha's televised announcement that he would be returning to work on March 15. In a rapid series of meetings, the Nationalists resolved that the positions of party leader and State President should be held by the same man and that they had full confidence in De Klerk. Their real message was clear enough: Botha should resign in De Klerk's favor. With...
...pratfalls by the opposition parties. Botha protests that he is "not looking for power for the sake of power," and does "not cling to posts." But it seems to many of his colleagues that his arbitrary postponement of the election to next year, when it must be held by March, reveals nothing so much as his desire to hold on to power as long...