Word: reopening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chair Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) accused the White House of leaking information from the FBI report on Tower and threatened to reopen the hearings on the nomination and subpoena anonymous witnesses quoted in the agency review...
...production, which will reopen April 7 at the Los Angeles Theater Center, Roscoe Lee Browne does an impressive star turn as the "conjure man" Bynum. But that is not the star role, and his vocal legerdemain only distracts from the inadequate James Craven as the play's emblem of unjust suffering, Herald Loomis. The visionary fit at the close of the first act and the self- mutilation at the finale, which terrified Broadway audiences, brought titters in San Francisco...
...measure, which the council passed last week in a slightly different form, came up again this week when Councillor Walter J. Sullivan moved to reopen the discussion. Although the measure's sponsor, Councillor Alice K. Wolf said it was not specifically directed at a particular project, but the zoning change would have halted the new building at the Athenaeum Group's One Kendall Square project...
...between the leadership in Moscow and a broad-based popular movement at home, the Armenian Communist Party has tried to equivocate. In June its newly elected first secretary, Soren Arutyunyan, along with the Armenian Supreme Soviet, defied Moscow's wishes by petitioning the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. to reopen the Nagorno-Karabakh question. (The enclave was assigned to Azerbaijan by Joseph Stalin in 1923.) But Arutyunyan also declared that the Yerevan demonstrators were "not supported by the broad masses." In reply, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev chided an Armenian delegation that had come to the Kremlin to plead the cause...
...intense public interest went beyond the issue of racial discrimination. What seemed to hang in the balance was the larger question of whether a conservative court was emerging -- one that not only would shape the future but also might reopen other past cases, such as the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which granted women the right to have an abortion...