Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the Pakistani capital, the U.S. team talked with Military Strongman Mohammed Zia ul-Haq about how to protect Pakistan from the Soviet threat along its 1,400-mile border with Afghanistan. Brzezinski and Christopher reassured Zia that the U.S. intended to come to Pakistan's aid in the...
First, Harvard officials should pledge firmly that the land will be used for open market, not student, housing. Cambridge is chronically in need of new construction to take a little of the pressure off its tight housing market.
> Pledge several hundred million to help build first-class facilities at the permanent site. While the U.S. could pay a substantial part of the price, other countries could be apportioned shares of the expenses to get the permanent home of the Olympics established. Thereafter, the quadrennial profits and expenses could...
Whether the speed will continue is most doubtful. Election-year sessions of Congress are always intensely partisan affairs, and sounds of party conflict were rumbling last week beneath the foreign policy unity. Carter sent Congress a written 75-page State of the Union message touting his Administration's accomplishments...
Still, a few leaders have maintained power. By far the most visible of Peshawar's refugees is Sayad Ahmed Gailani. The 45-year-old Islamic scholar fled Afghanistan with his large family in 1978 and now claims 70,000 soldiers in his National Liberation Front, with another 300,000...