Word: two-day
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...official, who points sout that the Sandinistas agreed recently to reverse a previous descision and extend until Sept. 30 the deadline for candidates to register for the election. But the Sandinistas' sudden public relations campaign of sweet reason seemed to some former admirers to lack conviction. At a two-day meeting of representatives from Central America, Contadora and the European Community in Costa Rica at week's end, one European diplomat remarked: "It's growing a bit more difficult for us to be enthusiastic about the Nicaraguan revolution." -By Hunter R. Clark...
...brother, had feared that the centerpiece of the celebration, the statue, cast in Rome by Philippine Sculptor Tomas Concepcion and flown to Manila via New York City, would be deliberately held up by Philippine customs and had readied a similar statue made of plaster. But after a two-day standoff, during which the bronze was kept at the airport, Marcos ordered $3,970 in duties waived and the figure released...
...dragged on without end, although not for want of peacemakers. During the past four years, many governments and organizations have offered to serve as intermediaries in the conflict between Iran and Iraq. But Iran has refused all help. The door has now opened a crack. After a two-day visit to Tehran, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher reported last week that Iran was ready to "break through the ring of isolation" and "begin a political dialogue with the West...
With an audience like this," said U.S. District Judge Miles W. Lord as he gazed around the courtroom, "I should make a speech. It's very tempting." But throughout the two-day hearing last week in St. Paul, the outspoken judge was uncharacteristically quiet. The reason: the subject of the proceeding was Miles Lord...
...emerged from the craft, some looking grim and weary, others with grins and wisecracks. To their bitter disappointment, they were told that they might as well head home for the weekend. Admitted Thomas Utsman, director of shuttle operations at Kennedy Space Center: "This will not be a one-or two-day turnaround...