Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things that Roosevelt brought us 50 years ago," Father Robert F. Drinan, the ADA's president, declared in the convention's opening speech. Sol C. Chaikin, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, labeled the convention a symbolic renaissance and called for "a new prophet...to restate and renew the faith" on the one hundredth anniversary of Roosevelt's birth. And other speakers--including Parliament member Shirley Williams--joined their voices to his in calling for a reemergence of the Roosevelt coalition of labor, liberals and minorities. Last came a note of outright optimism from Leon Shull, national director...
...close of the 24-hour visit, the Americans had little to say, but the Vietnamese, who are in desperate economic straits and are anxious to reduce their dependence on the Soviet Union, seized the occasion to renew their plea for rapprochement with the West. Declared Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach: "We seek normal diplomatic relations with the U.S., not financial aid. Nobody here ever thought that normalization would come to us via Santa Claus." Though the Vietnamese chided the Americans for attempting to "politicize" the problem of the missing servicemen, they did agree to send a team of experts...
Rogers said his priority is the fulfillment of the December 1979 NATO decision on theater nuclear forces an agreement to modernize the medium range nuclear weapons deployed in Europe including the deployment of the Pershing II and to renew efforts at arms negotiations with the Soviet Union...
...week before the reappointment of Boston school superintendent Robert R. Spillane is slated to come to a vote, the presidents of 17 area colleges involved with the Boston public school system have sent the Boston school committee a letter supporting Spillane and urging them to renew his contract...
...United States in El Salvador is encouraging because it reflects the wide spectrum of experience and political views that now constitute the anti-intervention movement. White has suggested serveral policies that would help speedily resolve the conflict. One possible course would be to ask Bishop Riverary Damas to renew his 1980 offer to mediate negotiations while encouraging Duarte to repeat his public acceptance of such mediation. Some groups believe that the United States and its allies should work out the provisions for an international peace force in El Salvador. Others contend that only complete nonintervention is acceptable. It is becoming...