Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That afternoon, Carter held an unprecedented news conference for Polish and U.S. journalists. Even though the Warsaw government barred three dissident reporters from attending, it was a remarkably freewheeling session. One Polish reporter, Konstanty Jazowski, editor of a Baptist newspaper, asked Carter if he could help stop Polish Catholic discrimination against Baptists. The President ducked the question. He did so again when ABC Correspondent Sam Donaldson provocatively recalled how Carter had ridiculed Gerald Ford for wrongly claiming during a campaign debate that Poland was not dominated by Moscow. Asked Donaldson: "Do you see a day when Poland may actually...
Attendance at Yale's summer session had declined for the past three years. Officials cited the high cost of tuition and declining student interest as reasons for falling profits...
...Massachusetts Senate failed to vote on the Judicial Reform Bill, the modified product of a Select Committee on Judicial Needs chaired by Archibald Cox '34, before the end of the 1977 session of the Legislature on Tuesday night...
...expressed disappointment that the Senate did not enact the bill, but declined to predict whether the legislation, resubmitted by Gov. Dukakis yesterday morning, could pass during the present session...
...Yamani and other ministers politely dismissed Pérez's move. To show his displeasure, Yamani that night even developed a diplomatic illness that enabled him to skip the seven-course, two-wine extravaganza offered by Pérez. Then, during a long session in the hotel suite of the Venezuelan oil minister after dinner, the 13 OPEC ministers agreed that there would be no increase at least until their next meeting in June. (Officially they failed to make a price decision, but that has the same effect as voting a freeze.) Saudi Arabia is expected to continue pushing for a price...