Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jayewardene had already announced a request for "military assistance" from the U.S., Britain, Pakistan and China to help "suppress a revolt against the democratically elected government." U.S. officials indicated that some "logistical support" might be forthcoming but that there would be no direct military...
...increase would be only half of that permitted by the joint budget resolution Congress approved in May. However the bill, if approved by the Senate, sets spending at a level about $6.6 billion higher than the Administration's budget request and may face veto by President Reagan...
...knocked off Request Number One along with a Core requirement by signing up for "Historical Studies A: Modern Science and Modern Societies" in the spring of my freshman year...
...then an Army photographer stationed at the Hal Roach Studio in California, was sent by his commanding officer, Captain Ronald Reagan, to take promotional shots of women doing war work. The allure of Norma Jean Dougherty, 19, attaching propellers to model aircraft at the Radioplane Corp., prompted Conover to request a two-week leave, which he spent touring the Mojave Desert with the young beauty and teaching her some modeling techniques. Conover returned late from his leave and was shipped out to the Philippines. The film, sent to a friend to be developed, was lost, except for ten photos that...
...correction was another blow to the Times's Washington bureau and Whitney, who was appointed by Frankel. In June, after Whitney had sent a letter to presidential candidates asking for personal documents, plus access to psychiatric records and FBI files, Frankel issued a memo saying the request had gone "too far." A few days later Frankel sent a memo chastising the bureau for "lassitude" in following up Washington Post scoops. Admitted a Times staffer: "Let's face it, we were getting clobbered on the Iran-contra story...