Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The food supplies are bountiful when compared with those in the U.S.S.R., yet many citizens feel that the Czechoslovak Communist Party has broken its pledge by failing to ensure stable prices and no shortages. The popular response, so far at least, is to cheat a bit more, which could be...
DIED. Hugh Gallen, 58, plainspeaking, two-time Democratic Governor of traditionally Republican New Hampshire, who upset Incumbent Meldrim Thomson in 1978 on his promise (later honored) to eliminate a surcharge from electric bills and hold the line on taxes; of liver and kidney failure, a week before he was to...
In one of the most tasteless scenes of the film, she unites the two adults in mock marriage. "We agree to be married for now because there is now always," she intones. "We will remember this pledge until we can no longer remember." Such lines are hard to forget, however...
Zia has maintained his power in Pakistan through a program of violence and intimidation which he initiated five years ago with his military takeover of his benefactor Prime Minister Zulitgar Ali Bhutto. Many of his political opponents and critics reportedly have been jailed and tortured without trial or charges, while...
Too busy shouting at each other over agricultural subsidies, import quotas and trade in services, the ministers who gathered in Geneva went into overtime through the weekend in an attempt to salvage their conference with a minimum pledge to set up formal studies of these fundamental questions. But it was...