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...these developments, taken together, have cast a distinct pall over White's administration. After occupying office for 15 often tumultuous years, the liberal mayor may face his roughest fight ever if he seeks re-election to a fifth term next November. "I will not retreat an inch," insists White. "I will be heard...
Nuclear weapons are the issue of the day, casting a long pall over our lives. That pall will only begin to recede once enough governments and local institutions voice their fears. Tonight's open meeting should prove a fertile way for Harvard to decide how to voice its own, and whether a symbolic repudiation of nuclear arms investments is the right way to do it. Be there...
...holding of the American hostages had cast a pall over my own life and over the American people since Nov. 4, 1979. Although I was acting as President, I also had deep private feelings. The hostages sometimes seemed like part of my own family. I knew them by name, was familiar with their careers, had read their letters written from their prisons in Iran. More than anything else, I wanted those prisoners to be free...
...Does the conflict in the South Atlantic cast a pall over the summit meetings...
...Warsaw, the riots erupted two days after more than 20,000 residents had marched through the capital's old city in a counterdemonstration aimed at the official May Day parade that was passing through the city's major thoroughfares. Anxious not to cast a pall on a sacred Communist holiday, the government ignored the protest. But when Poles reconvened for another demonstration on May 3, Constitution Day, the police had orders to break...