Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Huskies (14-12-2) led, 4-2, when B.U. Captain Mike Kelfer slipped the puck into the open side of the net to narrow the N.U. lead...
...government's most immediate military concern focuses on the Salang. The Soviets have been able to keep the route open by combining military muscle with diplomacy. Outposts dot the way. Soviet officers had an informal understanding with Ahmad Shah Massoud, the powerful mujahedin commander in the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul: safe passage for Soviet vehicles as long as Moscow keeps up the withdrawal. After last week's offensive by Soviet and Afghan troops, that arrangement may be finished...
Though U.S. officials emphasized that Duarte had not rejected the entire F.M.L.N. plan, they acknowledged that the Christian Democrats may be too divided to open negotiations. Thus any compromise may have to wait until after the elections, and by then it could be too late. Shut out of the polls, the F.M.L.N. is likely to launch a new offensive in a country already soaked in blood...
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev hopes the more open method of selecting candidates will provide a jolt for his lagging reforms. As he explained during the Supreme Soviet that convened in November to approve the procedures, "If we do not carry out a political reform to back up the processes that are now under way in the economy, the restructuring drive will inevitably begin to falter...
...being presented with the name of a single party-approved candidate, voters will pick from a slate of several nominees. Moreover, the elections will be conducted by secret ballot. But because of the complex, overlapping rules, the route from nomination to election is difficult to understand and often seems open to manipulation. The new law makes nominating candidates so confusing that some sessions have degenerated into brawls as factions accused one another of exploiting the fuzzy regulations to rig the outcome...