Word: departing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Students move into "Southeast House," which boasts a new bus port. Aiming to "help students from different campuses understand one another better," shuttles will depart every hour for local women's colleges...
...more a symbolic than a practical victory. Since arms sales have been ended and Shultz is not eager to resume diplomatic contacts with Tehran, even supposing Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini would allow any, there is no longer much of an Iranian policy to be in charge of. The State Department nonetheless exultantly trumpeted its triumph and announced that Shultz now planned to stay in office until the "end of the Administration." Well, maybe: the Secretary is still under fire at a displeased White House for this rebellion. Speculation continues that the Secretary will quietly depart in another few months after...
Standing on the steps of a Washington luncheon club last week, one of the capital's top lawyers watched the NSC's newly resigned Vice Admiral John Poindexter depart and mused aloud, "If I were a young lawyer in this city, I'd get hold of Oliver North right now and sign him up. I know him, and he's a hell of a guy. If they hold hearings on him, he'll be a national hero. There will be a book and then a movie, and he'll get just about any price he wants on the lecture circuit...
...last of 25 Soviet diplomats expelled from the United States under a broad accusation of spying have left the country, the State Department announced. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that among the final five to depart were Valery Savchenko, said to be the KGB station chief in New York, and Vladislav Skvortsov, said to be the New York chief of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence...
...coming into a depart- ment that voted against your appointment. Youhave been imposed upon it by a personal decisionof the President, an act that, to my knowledge, isunexampled in the modern history of this Faculty,"Landes wrote...