Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Machel, the country's leader since it won independence from Portugal in 1975, had almost personally been holding Mozambique together in recent years. Once a doctrinaire Marxist, he showed more flexibility as his troubles built up. He signed an accord in 1984 with South Africa under which Mozambique promised to...
That is the goal of one of Impac's founding members, Nathan Landow, a Bethesda, Md., real estate developer who chairs the party's 1988 convention- site-selection committee. A man fond of speaking in large sums ("We could pledge $6 million to $8 million in a minute"), Landow, 53...
The most extraordinary bargaining session in the history of arms control was reaching a crescendo. For almost two days, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. had continued to up the ante. Now, as night closed in on Hofdi house, the "grand compromise" was in sight. But the whole startling package of proposals...
THE PROTEST is more theraputic than activist. If the students really wanted to increase minority enrollment, they would pledge to make all donations to a fund devoted to sponsoring scholarships for minorities. If they wanted to attack investments in South Africa, they would set up a fund similar to the...
The hope of both leaders is that in Iceland they can agree on the general outlines for an accord that would drastically reduce INF (intermediate-range nuclear forces) missiles and warheads. Diplomats would then try to put a pact in shape for the leaders to sign if and when they...