Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...criticism may well be the angriest the Bush White House has heard. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, using an image taken up by many other critics, accused Bush of "embarrassing kowtowing." Others assailed the surreptitious nature of the mission -- it was announced in Washington at 2 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, after Scowcroft and Eagleburger had already landed in Beijing -- and the obsequious nature of Scowcroft's toast at a banquet. Scowcroft addressed the Chinese rulers as "friends," referred oh-so- delicately to "the events at Tiananmen" and described U.S. critics of the massacre as "irritants" to Chinese-American relations...
...groaned with irony. "Everything that Sakharov did," he said, "was dictated by his keen conscience and profound humanistic convictions." Whatever bitterness Sakharov's friends may have felt about the way he was treated in the past, the authorities, at least, tried to make amends. An official obituary published on Saturday in the party daily, Pravda, condemned the noted physicist's banishment to Gorky as a "grave injustice...
Several thousand people, most of them ethnic Romanian students and workers, protested in downtown Timisoara on Saturday and briefly occupied the Communist Party headquarters, breaking windows and smashing furniture, Berindei said...
After a tough loss, most coaches would be disappointed. But for Harvard women's basketball Coach kathy Delaney Smith, it was a different story Saturday at Briggs Cage...
...turnover problem that has plagued the Crimson all season was alleviated Saturday only to be replaced by a deficiency from the perimeter and on the boards. During the first half, the Crimson shot a dismal 26 percent from the field and went into the intermission trailing...