Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...request came in response to a well-publicized scandal at the Kennedy School, when Dean Graham T. Allison '62 approved a draft agreement that would have granted "officer of the University" status to a Texas couple in exchange for a $500,000 donation. In 1985, the same couple were made lecturers in psychology months after they gave $150,000 to the Erik Erikson Center, an interdisciplinary research center that is part of Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Hospital...
Noriega didn't make any specific request for a return favor, Blandon said. But he later renewed his assertion that Noriega headed a "criminal empire" that dealt in drugs with the knowledge of U.S. officials...
While the Administration tried to sound conciliatory, it actually yielded little. When congressional leaders requested a role in authorizing release of the military funds, the White House refused, arguing it must protect the President's constitutional role in making foreign policy. The pledge to talk with Central American Presidents did not indicate how the regional appraisal would be communicated to Congress. Moreover, the aid request resembles one put forward by the Administration last fall when it asked for $270 million to be spread over 18 months, averaging $15 million a month. This package, which covers only four months and includes...
Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey warned of "serious implications" for security cooperation, which he said "can only be conducted on a basis of < mutual trust." Worried by the souring relationship, Britain agreed to an Irish request for an emergency meeting this week...
HOWEVER, equally troubling issues would have emerged had a mere four congressmen switched their nay votes against Reagan's $43 million contra request. The Sandinistas, upon learning of the vote to extend contra aid, surely would have denounced it as sabotaging the peace process. More aid would have allowed them to continue hiding behind the screen that the contra war, and not their own pathetic fiscal mismanagement, is to blame for the searing poverty and economic woes that afflict the Nicaraguan people. The delicate peace accord would have collapsed, and the United States would have been accused by the international...