Word: conference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consuming countries, many of which are rich industrial lands. The crisis could inflame tensions in the Middle East, in particular, where oil revenues have dropped from $237 billion in 1980 to an estimated $110 billion last year. Last week Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who visited the U.S. to confer with Secretary of State George Shultz, called the oil plunge a threat to peace in the Middle East and urged Western countries to begin a modern-day Marshall Plan to aid the region, using some of the money saved by lower oil prices...
...officer told TIME last week. Among them: a joint U.S.-Egyptian operation designed to topple Gaddafi, a plan to work with the French that included offensive actions from both the Mediterranean and Chad, and covert action involving other North African governments. McFarlane dispatched Poindexter, then his deputy, to confer with Egypt and other allies in the Middle East and Europe. "We even approached Israel," the intelligence official notes. But the response was discouraging; intelligence reports showed little chance of fomenting a coup within Libya, and none of the ideas jelled. "We learned the hard way," says the CIA man, "that...
LAST WEEK, the Walt Disney Corporation announced plans to construct five new theme amusement parks in various locations around the globe. In order to confer the greatest possible benefit on the world's population at large, I suggest that one of the new Disneylands be centered on the holy city of Jerusalem...
...that Volcker might resign. But Newcomer Angell went to the chairman's office a few hours later and suggested a compromise. By the end of the day, the board assembled again at its dark mahogany table and suspended the rate cut so that Volcker could have more time to confer with foreign officials. Less than two weeks later, after West Germany and other countries had reduced their interest charges, the board unanimously voted to lower the discount rate...
...will continue to be detained, banned and harassed, and township communities will continue to suffer from the depredations of the security forces," said the Detainees' Parents Support Committee. "It now seems that we are about to enter an era of intensified political repression through supercharged security legislation that will confer permanent emergency powers...