Word: reconsiderations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The meeting of the eight-member executive board of the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) at Lausanne's ornate Palace Hotel last week was billed as a last-ditch attempt to persuade the Soviet Union to reconsider its boycott of this summer's Olympic Games in Los Angeles. But...
In Los Angeles, the announcement of the Soviet pullout from this summer's Games hit with earthquake force. Many of the 1,200 employees of the L.A.O.O.C. heard the news on car radios as they pulled into parking spaces at the headquarters building, a former Hughes helicopter plant nicknamed "the...
He added, however, that the Americans should not ask the Soviets to reconsider their decision not to participate in this summer's Olympics. "It's over and final, and it's debasing to plead with them," he said.
Can the Justice Department function effectively without a full-fledged Attorney General? Americans may soon find out. William French Smith insists that he plans to leave the post to return to his California law practice this month, and President Reagan has not pressed him to reconsider. Edwin Meese, Reagan'...
The FBI documents I had received seemed possibly to clarify an obscure passage in President Bok's earlier letter to those who sought access to the Harvard documents. It is quite possible, he wrote then, that the Harvard files contain records relating to the political activities of various people, based...