Word: pledgees
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Reagan restored grain sales (a major campaign pledge) on the grounds that the boycott only damaged American farmers. A pipeline boycott would similarly injure European economic interests; the Administration is highly insensitive to gloss over the pipeline's importance to the firms and economies of western European nations, which lack...
We need prayers in our schools. If it is all right to pledge allegiance to a nation under God and sing God Bless America, why not a simple daily prayer? In starting its day, Congress asks for God's help. Surely it cannot be wrong for our children to...
It was a bold departure on the part of the Mitterrand government, which since coming to office in May 1981 has studiously avoided open conflict with the Reagan Administration. Said French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "We no longer speak the same language. There is a remarkable incomprehension between Europe and...
Another difficult problem for the Administration was the conducting of peace negotiations amid growing anger among even moderate Arabs over Israel's siege of West Beirut. The Administration was also dismayed. "Israel's theory of pressure is counterproductive if not barbaric," said one high State Department official. The...
DIED. Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández, 71, moderately leftist, U.S.-backed President of the Dominican Republic since 1978, who improved health services, schools and rural conditions and who pushed the military out of politics; by his own hand (a pistol shot to the head, officially called an...