Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Year's Day, following consultations in Moscow, Najibullah had announced that beginning Jan. 15, government troops would observe a cease-fire if mujahedin rebels joined in. Coupling his offer with a vague promise of "national reconciliation," Najibullah proposed that his regime and unspecified opposition groups create a new national government...
Last week's visit made it clear that Najibullah's proposed six-month cease- fire was more than propaganda. In remarks to Afghan journalists before he left the capital, Shevardnadze praised the cease-fire offer and hinted that a Soviet troop withdrawal was "not far off" so long as "freedom-loving cowboys," apparently meaning the U.S., stop aiding the rebels...
...value judgment one of the interviewees cast on the student protesters. According to him, student demonstrations are pointless because "freedom is for qualified people only," and they mostly arise from ignorance and naivete. These are value judgments and like all other value judgments it is difficult to offer logical counterarguments. But I have to say this statement deeply offends my civic sense of morality...
Amartya Sen, currently a professor of political economy at Oxford and President of the International Economics Association, said yesterday that he has not decided whether he will accept the offer...
Professor of Economics Eric S. Maskin said, "Everyone is pleased that he might come. We really don't know if he will, but he has taken the offer seriously enough to investigate living arrangements...