Word: groups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recently announced advisers were part of a group of scholars and other experts with experience in a variety of foreign and domestic policy areas whom the Reagan campaign considered for the post, Joe Holmes, director of communications for the Reagan organization, said yesterday...
Many hostage families have formed an organization named FLAG (Family Liaison Action Group). "It's for psychological reasons as much as for anything else," says Louisa Kennedy, FLAG spokeswoman and wife of State Department Officer Moorhead C. Kennedy. Members of the group confer occasionally with White House aides, and were briefed on Monday just before Carter announced the steps he was taking. FLAG plans to help the families deal with the complicated financial and legal problems stemming from the takeover of the embassy, including the possibility of bringing suits to get damages from the frozen Iranian assets...
...ended the chaotic hearing for eleven suspected terrorists whose arrest, law-enforcement officials believe, broke the back of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (F.A.L.N.), a small, secretive and extremely violent group on the fringe of the tiny political movement for Puerto Rican independence. Since 1974 the F.A.L.N. has claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in Chicago, Miami, New York City, Washington and Puerto Rico, killing five people and injuring at least 70 others...
...current dispute is also territorial. Its focal point is a group of three small islands-Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb-that lie near the mouth of the Persian Gulf. These strategically placed islands have traditionally been claimed by the United Arab Emirates, but in 1971 they were seized by the Shah's forces, following Britain's military withdrawal from the gulf. Iraq has vowed to bring the islands back under Arab control, meaning Iraqi control, and on this point enjoys the support of the entire Arab world. Comments Kuwait's influential newspaper al Qabas...
...particularly the U.S. The Carter Administration has considered approving the sale to Iraq of engines for gunboats that Baghdad has ordered from France and Italy. The proposed sale has drawn criticism from several Congressmen, on the grounds that Iraq has supported Palestinian guerrillas against Israel, including the terrorist group that last week attacked Israel's Kibbutz Misgav Am (see following story). Beyond that, Administration experts are said to be divided over the question, with some arguing that the U.S. should seize the opportunity to improve ties with Iraq, while others fear that such action could make Washington...