Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about whether the government is committed to meaningful elections. Aside from the candidates and the U.S. embassy, few expect Haiti's new electoral council to be able to set up a free and fair vote by Nov. 29, the date scheduled for the presidential ballot. "The government certainly would prefer not to have elections," says Emmanuel Ambroise, a member of the council...
...table. I said it would take the breezy exuberanced of a former Vice President who would go up to a Black table in a way that I could not myself do, and say, "Would you motherfuckers let this white fellow sit down with you?" (I also said I would prefer not to have the episode put into the story, not using such language comfortably either in my conversation with him or in this letter.) It was to this inhibition I referred, not to a general decline in the attention House Masters pay vis-a-vis "affairs of race...
...decide whether to declare war. A Senate vote to invoke the law had lost, 50 to 41, only a week earlier. Weicker accused both the President and Congress of being unwilling to take a stand on the military situation in the gulf. "Both the Congress and the President would prefer a fog, where if things go wrong, nobody can find you," Weicker charged...
...most actors interviewed say they do not mind being called by directors during the 24-hour period. They say they prefer being told about a role before making other commitments. One performer says she was called and asked if she would switch parts. "It didn't really matter," she says...
...stepped-up fighting, though he declared that France will continue to defend the Chadian capital from attack. Premier Jacques Chirac last week repeated calls for a "negotiated solution" to the war. Though France supports Chadian President Hissene Habre's claim to the Aozou Strip, the Chirac government would prefer to have the issue settled by international arbitration. Chad's African neighbors take similar positions. At week's end Chad and Libya agreed to accept a cease-fire proposed by the Organization of African Unity. Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda said he was seeking to begin peace talks between the two countries...