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Several ministers, including those of China, Australia and Japan, backed a recommendation by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to dispatch a "reconnaissance mission" to Cambodia immediately to lay the groundwork for an "international control mechanism...
Only two of the contract meetings were formal, full-team meetings. Early in February, the University and the union held these full meetings to lay the groundwork for the negotiating process which would continue through the next three months...
...question of revenue will now be decided by the Senate. If they choose to link fiscal '89 with fiscal '90, they will lay the groundwork for a substantial tax increase," Voke said yesterday during debate...
Moscow Beginners was started in 1987 by the Rev. J.W. Canty, an Episcopal priest from New York City who came to Moscow in 1985 to help lay the groundwork for the group. Meanwhile, Volodya, 36, a machinist, had heard about A.A. on a Canadian radio broadcast and had written to A.A. headquarters in New York, which in turn informed Canty that he had a taker in Moscow. The group's first session, held in a hotel room across from the Kremlin, was attended by Volodya and two visiting American members of A.A. Membership grew slowly, largely because the group...
Last week ASEAN foreign ministers met to lay the groundwork for another "informal meeting" in Jakarta that will bring together the Kampuchean government, some if not all of the rebel factions, China, Viet Nam and Thailand. The object is to set up a formal peace parley aimed at devising a government power-sharing formula, nailing down a Vietnamese withdrawal timetable and establishing international monitoring of the peace...