Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, reaction to the test of the relatively small device of less than 20 kilotons, designed to assess the effect of a nuclear explosion on missile warheads and components, split largely along party lines. Senator John Warner, the Virginia Republican, supported the continuation of testing. Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts declared that the Administration was "squandering one of the best opportunities in many years to achieve a comprehensive test-ban treaty." At the Nevada test site, almost 100 protesters from Greenpeace, the international environmental and antinuclear organization, were arrested in the course of the week. Whatever else the detonation...
...United States' strongest argument against the Nicaraguan suit was that the Sandinista government, along with Cuba, waged "secret warfare against other states. These attacks were intended to be secret, and not attributable," said Moore, who is a professor of law at the University of Virginia...
...when UMass forward Virginia Armstrong spun through a hoard of Crimson defenders and flipped a shot past Harvard goalie Kelly Dermody with four minutes left in the game, the entire team stared in disbelief...
...presidential election, the D.L.C. set out to do three things: shift the party away from standard-brand liberalism, stem defections to the G.O.P., and create a climate for a moderate or conservative Democrat to succeed Ronald Reagan as President. What a difference a year makes. Notes Virginia ex- Governor Charles Robb, who will shortly become the next D.L.C. chairman: "What we've done is evoke new interest in the party. We're providing a showcase for a message and for messengers...
...birds to Dial Poultry, a distributing company owned by sons of Gambino Family Crime Boss Paul Castellano, the Mob chieftain who was gunned down in midtown Manhattan last December. Perdue knew with whom he was dealing. Later he turned to Castellano, unsuccessfully, for assistance in easing labor troubles in Virginia. "They (the Mafia) have long tentacles," the poultry producer testified last September before the President's Commission on Organized Crime. "I figured he may be able to help...