Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In return, Israel received a pledge of peace and use of the Suez Canal. To stick by his Camp David signature. Begin has been forced to evict and evacuate the ultra-religious settlers in the Sinai and give them substantial economic compensation. As he is pushed from the far right...
Legal difficulties over Harvard's treatment of the Semitic museum first cropped up when Dean McGeorge Bundy proposed in 1958 that the building be sold. Concerned about Eliot's original pledge to Schiff, a Faculty committee strongly recommended instead that the upper floors be rented out for no more than...
The Democratic primary, which will be held September 9, will determine the official party nominee. The convention which opens May 20, will make a non binding endorsement. Dukakis, who won the majority of the delegates in February 6 caucuses is expected to gain that pledge.
Meanwhile, a more important diplomatic move was getting under way in Central America. U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Anthony Quainton opened new negotiations in Managua aimed at getting the Nicaraguans to pledge that they will stop supporting insurrections in neighboring countries-namely, El Salvador. In return the U.S. is willing to...
"My associates and I believe that incomparably the greatest threat to the future of our country-and all countries-is the threat of nuclear war," declared McNamara, articulating the quartet's cause: to persuade the U.S. and its NATO allies to pledge not to use nuclear weapons against a...