Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improve safety in the highrise towers of some houses, signs will be placed in their elevators warning that they not be used during a fire, said Frank J. Moore, manager of support services at Harvard's facilities maintenance department...
Along with the support of his working-class constituents, Vellucci has actively sought backing from political colleagues in Boston and Washington. He said he has received endorsements from U.S. Reps. Edward Markey and Barney Frank, both liberal Democrats from Eastern Massachusetts...
...Geneva talks were about to break down over that contentious point last week when Gorbachev decided to yield to the U.S. demand. Having won support from the Politburo, all that remained for Gorbachev was to secure agreement from Afghanistan President Najibullah, a former secret-police chief who is reportedly displeased with the Soviet pullout plan. Gorbachev summoned Najibullah to Tashkent, 200 miles north of the Soviet-Afghan border, where the two men conferred along with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. No details of the talks were released, but a Western diplomat in Moscow said, "I think it is a fair...
...Pakistan, which has suffered Afghan air and artillery attacks along the border as well as terror bombings in retribution for Islamabad's support for the mujahedin, the response to Gorbachev's concession was more clear-cut. Legislators thumped their desks in approval as President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq told a joint session of the parliament that a Soviet pullout was imminent. He called the development the "miracle of the 20th century, God willing...
...drop longstanding treaty commitments to provide Kabul with military aid. Then, two weeks ago, U.S. diplomats turned Washington's position on its head in a compromise proposal made to the Soviets: Would Moscow go along with continued U.S. arms supplies to the mujahedin at levels "symmetrical" to Moscow's support for Najibullah? "Unacceptable" was the response by Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze threatened a unilateral Soviet pullout without an agreement at Geneva. In the end, Gorbachev apparently decided that a formal accord was too important to lose. "What they needed was a fig leaf," observed...