Word: undertook
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...bureau in Moscow from 1968 until 1970, notes that: "Because these were the unsanctioned words of a deposed leader, the transcripts of the tapes were handled in much the same way as novels, poetry, and other 'underground' Soviet texts that reach the West unofficially are handled. We undertook not to disclose any specifics of how, by whom and when the material was transcribed or delivered. These restrictions are still in force today...
...Rosovsky report was a progressive document stimulated by the tragic murder of Martin Luther King and informed by the rising tide of militancy among black undergraduates. It undertook to discuss in a serious way "the quality of black student life at Harvard." The committee that wrote the report discovered that conditions at Harvard were such that black students here needed a cultural center along the lines of Hillel House or the Newman Center. The report urged the University to "use (its) good offices in securing and financing a building and providing continued support to the activities of such a social...
During the unrest of the last 60's, The Crimson not only reported the conflicts within and beyond the, University, it also undertook investigative reporting with a gravity of purpose unusual for a college paper. while excesses were sometimes committed, we, the readers, always knew that objective reporting and representative editorializing on major issues were the goals and, usually, the reality. The recent spate of articles on Prof. Kiely and Hugh Berryman have typified an inexplicable decline in what had augured to be an emerging Crimson tradition of high journalistic standards. This deterioration is inexplicable because many of the questions...
Israeli good will was reciprocated by Egypt: within twelve days after the west bank retirement is completed, it will draw more than 60,000 men and nearly 600 tanks out of Sinai. President Anwar Sadat undertook a five-day, eight-nation tour of the Arab world to explain the agreement. Egypt would live up to its terms fully, said Sadat to other Arab leaders. "Creating doubt does not serve our cause," he said. Significantly, Sadat credited the U.S. for playing a principal role in attaining disengagement. "For every change in the American position," he said, "it is necessary...
...Middle East crisis. He also undertook two missions to China, building on the diplomacy initiated the year before by Nixon and himself...