Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The men wore loose-fitting barong tagalogs; many of the women, designer dresses. The formality was appropriate for a presidential inauguration--even one called at short notice. But the dignitaries and affluent friends assembled at the Club Filipino in the Manila suburb of Greenhills merely formed a splendid backdrop for...
In this spirit, Aquino reiterated her campaign pledge last week to call a six-month cease-fire in the war against the N.P.A., which caused more than 1,200 civilian deaths in 1985. If the guerrillas would disavow violence, she declared, she would offer them amnesty. Said Laurel: "Given a...
Apparently not. Last October Sherri Clark, an 18-year-old sorority pledge, died at a party sponsored by two sororities when after drinking heavily, she fell from a bridge. And in Texas, Kappa Alpha Rusty Combes, 26, won a $21 million out- of-court settlement for injuries sustained in an...
Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library, in the midst of a major fundraising drive, has received a half-million-dollar pledge from a private New York foundation.
The Harvard peace organization, with both student and faculty members, was formed last year after 50 people from the Divinity School signed the Pledge of Resistance, an oath of civil disobedience in the event of a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.