Word: requested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some things never change. Every year Ronald Reagan petitions a resistant Congress for renewed aid to the contra rebels. And every year, as the vote nears, Nicaragua's Sandinista leaders make a blunder that puts Reagan's request over the top. In 1985 Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra jetted off to Moscow four days after a $14 million contra-aid measure had been rejected; chastened by what looked like a deliberate slap in the face, Congress reversed itself and okayed a $27 million package. The next year a Sandinista attack on contra bases inside Honduras persuaded Congress to approve...
...Secretary was at serious labor. Gorbachev showed little curiosity about the White House or the people invited to meet him, did not talk about American history or heroes. "I don't know if he knew just who Joe DiMaggio was," said Reagan, recalling how, at the Yankee Clipper's request, he had asked Gorbachev to autograph a baseball. "But I explained that Joe was one of our great athletes, and he signed the baseball...
...Brian's father Ronald Thompson. "You can't police your kids 24 hours a day." Last week a judge declined to shut down the services pending a trial, but the state public-utilities commission ordered the phone company to block such calls from individual phones upon the customer's request. Two weeks ago an official at Georgia's public-service commission issued a similar ruling...
...historic arms accord. The President led the Soviet leader to a little study next to the Oval Office and produced a baseball that Joe DiMaggio had hoped to have autographed by Gorbachev at the state dinner the night before. Reagan was not just fulfilling the old Yankee slugger's request. He had a metaphor in mind. Are we, he asked, going to play ball? Yes, Gorbachev firmly agreed. Then the two men rejoined their top aides in the Oval Office for a critical hour-long bargaining session on ways to reduce their bloated arsenals of strategic weapons...
...good job with her rooming group, they still have some criticisms of the process. Freshmen suggested several alterations to the housing application, including the elimination of the neatness scale and the addition of space where incoming frosh could request certain physical characteristics for their rooms, such as fire-places or private baths...