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Word: request (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trip is classified as a "working visit," but Honecker will be accorded most of the trappings normally reserved for grander state visits, including lunch with President Richard von Weizsacker, meetings with leaders of the Bundestag and five hours of talks with Kohl. Bonn quickly acceded to one Honecker request: coffee and cake at the Essen home of Berthold Beitz, chairman of the Krupp steel empire, with whom he has developed a business and hunting friendship over the past seven years. That session will be followed by a reception for Honecker at the Villa Hugel, former home of the Krupp family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Homecoming for a Serious Boy | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...Netherlands is the only European country considering the legalization of euthanasia -- or mercy death, as the Dutch prefer to call it. Although euthanasia is illegal, Dutch physicians carry out an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 mercy deaths every year under a set of unofficial conditions: request of the patient, unbearable suffering, accord of the family and a second opinion by another physician. A panel of five provincial attorneys general reviews cases on a regular basis. In 1984 one of the smaller opposition parties proposed a law that would legalize euthanasia along the lines of present practice. The government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands Tolerance Finally Finds Its Limits | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Noenoelani, kneeling, chants and finger taps the puniu, a small coconut- shell drum lashed to the thigh, and thumps the pahu hula, a larger sharkskin- covered drum. Hauolionalani, leis at wrists and ankles, head erect, chants a formal request -- "Let me in, I'm cold" -- to be admitted to the halau, or dance school. Noenoelani replies as the teacher, "Come in, all I have to offer is my voice . . ." Her daughter begins the rhythmic, liquid swaying of the hula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: In Praise of the Goddess | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...addition, Soviet and Afghan pilots have launched well over 100 bomb and rocket attacks on Pakistani soil since late last year, killing more than 300 people. Zia's government has issued an "extremely urgent" request for U.S. radar surveillance aircraft to help ward off the intruders. The Reagan Administration looks favorably on the idea, though it still disagrees with Pakistan on the type of equipment to send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan A Bad Case of Nuclear Friction | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...Looming in the background is a 1985 law requiring a cutoff of U.S. aid to any country that tries to illegally acquire American technology or supplies for nuclear bomb making. With his plea to Zia, Armacost was hoping to prevent that cutoff from being applied automatically. The inspection request was specifically aimed at Pakistan's top-secret facility at Kahuta, where most nuclear research is believed to take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan A Bad Case of Nuclear Friction | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

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