Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the letter), I continue to be prepared to share in the responsibility for any criticisms of the letter and its contents." I would ask President Bok, "continue" with respect to what? Until Friday, his position, stated publicly when he came outside to address the University community at the request of the Open University, was that Joan Bok's letter was written completely on her own initiative, without the prodding of anyone else...
...deal that he wrote his paper's editorial denouncing it. "They missed the news," says Squires. "We're in the news business and the news is 'Where is Abbas?' " (Though the U.S. Government refused to speculate, Italian authorities last week said the terrorist was in Tunisia and an extradition request has been made...
...News President Lawrence Grossman says there was no debate within the network over whether to agree to Abbas' secrecy request. "It's critical that people know about terrorist leaders and what their plans are and what they are like," says Grossman. According to Correspondent Henry Champ, it took two months for NBC to make contact with Abbas and secure his consent; other than asking that his location not be revealed, Abbas set no conditions for the interview, which took place two weeks...
...unusual entrance because he had no other way of getting on stage. A rugby accident in high school left him paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a wheelchair to get around. Without a special elevator, Wallace needed his friends to hoist him onto the stage. At his request, the University began plans to install a lift, but Wallace was "fed up" waiting for it and quit the group before it was built...
...think that the U.S. told the public about potential dangers either. An earlier government report from Brookhaven National Laboratories, which was kept secret until a Freedom of Information Act request was filed, concluded that a major accident at a nuclear reactor slightly larger than TMI could "create a disaster area the size of Pennsylvania and could kill 45,000 people...