Word: visits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honor its commitment to leave Namibia, which it has administered for 73 years. More than once during the past seven years, the South Africans have dashed Crocker's hopes for peace. Perhaps to show its good faith, South Africa has invited U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to visit Pretoria as soon as possible to discuss independence for Namibia...
Sharon's parents were initially encouraged by their daughter's progress. But when Karen announced that she and Sharon had been lovers before the accident, the Kowalskis forbade her to visit anymore and eventually moved their daughter to a nursing home 180 miles away. In 1985, after a yearlong legal battle over custody and visitation rights, the court awarded Sharon's father full guardianship. The Kowalskis' lawyer maintains that Thompson's visits left Sharon depressed. Moreover, he argues that Sharon has the mind of a six-year- old and cannot express her wishes reliably. Thompson denies these claims and points...
...Pakistani air force crash investigation team flew to the scene today in search of the plane's flight recorder. A similar U.S. team was also expected, but details of its visit were not disclosed...
...terrible losses -- first of a brother, then of public office -- it would be understandable if Dukakis felt the need for some professional guidance. Seeking such help might, in fact, be a sign of emotional strength. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, each year 15.5 million American adults visit mental-health-care practitioners; few are invalids...
...novel, in fact, the only significant things that have happened are that Adam's mother has come to visit, he has been stabbed, in the middle of masturbating, by Christopher's mother who returns in the middle of the night to reclaim her son, and Christopher takes a step at the end of the novel. We know that Adam will continue in San Francisco for at least the rest of the year. But the rest is uncertain...