Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resolution was a far more stinging rebuff to the Soviet Union than the U.N. General Assembly's mildly worded statement, fortnight earlier, calling for a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. In addition, the Islamic summit, to which the Afghanistan government was invited but failed to attend, also managed to get the feuding Afghan rebel groups to form an ad hoc united front: the Islamic Alliance for the Liberation of Afghanistan. The front's spokesman, Burhanuddin Rabbani, former head of the faculty of Islamic law at Kabul University, told the conference that although Soviet troops controlled the main Afghan cities...
Reagan is adding more campaign stops to his New Hampshire schedule. Leading with his chin on the age issue, he plans to attend a large fund raiser in New Hampshire on his 69th birthday, Feb. 6. But the more he is exposed, the better his chance of committing the kind of blunders that hurt him four years ago, when he talked loosely about sending U.S. troops to Rhodesia...
...Desaulniers is the only person on the Crimson squad that will face Princeton who did not attend a prep school...
...Bunny would attend semi-pro basketball games and dance at halftime while the fans threw coins. On a good afternoon, he might make a cool hundred, just enough to pay the rent...
...convention uncommitted. Furthermore, independents would not be allowed to cast their ballots in the party primaries. Instead, they would have a vote of their own. The independent vote would have no official standing, but it would be taken into consideration by the party delegates when they attend the convention. They would have a good indication of which candidates have the broadest appeal, but they would still be free to exercise their independent judgment...