Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cabot House sponsors Cookin', the Friday night campus nightclub, and the new Club Zeus, a Saturday night dance club, in the Cabot Hall basement. The house SCR includes Mike Dukakis and Bill Walton. Cabot also boasts hamburgers on request at every meal, milk and cookies every Sunday night, a spring cricket match, and the "Six-Man Suite...
Democratic leaders who had fought the aid request could only sputter their annoyance with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. It was the second time he had undercut a potential victory in Washington: four days after the House had rejected contra funding eleven months ago, he embarked on a well- publicized and ill-timed pilgrimage to Moscow. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who engineered the most recent defeat of the contra aid package, termed the invasion a "tremendous blunder" and disgustedly called Ortega "a bumbling, incompetent Marxist-Leninist, a Communist." Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont quipped sarcastically that...
...intently pursuing it abroad. The Swiss government stunned its starchy banking community by freezing all assets in numerous bank accounts, rumored to total in the hundreds of millions of dollars, belonging to Marcos, his family and associates. Never before had Switzerland issued such a sweeping order without an explicit request from an aggrieved government. An estimated $1 billion of Marcos' assets abroad, mostly in the U.S., have also been frozen. No one, however, was ready to predict that the paper trail would come to an end soon, or that Marcos would be easily brought to justice...
...letter introducing the vote has been delivered to the graduate students. It asks them to choose between a reformed CRR and a new body proposed by an ad hoc committee of the GSC which would meet regularly and hold open hearings upon request...
...Tutu's request, which was also seen as an illumination of Black despair, came at the same time that the government dropped restrictions preventing the wife of jailed Black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela from returning to her home in the township of Soweto...