Word: request
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France had already refused a U.S. request to permit the F-111s to fly over her territory before Walters met with President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. An official French government statement later explained that Paris was fearful of intensifying "the chain of violence" by abetting the U.S. military strike. France may also have been reluctant to become involved in any military action that it did not initiate and could not control. Another factor: the newly installed Chirac government had just renewed efforts to win freedom for eight French hostages in Lebanon and did not want to endanger...
Many in Thatcher's own Tory Party were equally unsympathetic, particularly former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, who pointed out that he had refused President Richard Nixon's request to use British bases for U.S. aircraft resupplying Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Even some members of Thatcher's Cabinet privately opposed her decision, though all supported it publicly...
...embrace was the climax of an 80-minute ceremony last week during a historic pre-Passover call by John Paul at the synagogue; it was the first time that a Pope is known to have visited a Jewish house of worship. Initiated by a personal request from the Pontiff, the carefully planned event included mutual declarations of respect by the Pope (who twice used Hebrew phrases) and the Chief Rabbi, Bible readings, hymns and the rendition by a cantor and choir of Ani Ma'amin, a traditional profession of faith sung by Jews as they were...
...night and makes her his marked woman. With a pathological desire equaled only by Norman Bates in Psycho, Arnold finds Connie alone in her house and invites her "to go for a ride with him." The look of confusion in Connie's eyes as Arnold delivers his request-cum-monologue--a look that says she wants to go with him but knows better than to do so. It's a centuries-old look--women, girls really, who should have said "no" but couldn't, who wanted love so much that they settled for sex. And it's a look that...
...blindfold, light the cigarette and ask for that last request. Jeff Bloom, Tufts' pitching ace who doesn't miss very often, is taking aim in today's game against the Maine school...