Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political organization will choose its final endorsees in the comming weeks, said Jim Marzilli, executive director of the CCA. Candidates will only be chosen if their policies agree with the CCA platform, Marzilli said...
...chief issues on our platform is housing and development," Marzilli said. He added that "in Cambridge there is a great housing shortage along with a building boom, which is unfortunately all commercial. This reduces the housing that is available...
...this grudging spirit that Botha proposed his "reforms" -- whose chief effect was, not surprisingly, to whet the appetite for more. It was in this spirit that he called for new elections, thinking that he could crush his critics on the right by campaigning on a platform of xenophobia. But Botha soon found himself confronting an unprecedented wave of criticism from the "left," which is left only in relation to Afrikaner traditionalism. This criticism came from three important directions...
Gaddafi, for his part, emerged last week in Tripoli for a bizarre 20- second appearance marking the anniversary of the 1986 U.S. bombing raid on Libya. After stepping onto a platform before an audience of some 500 mostly foreign guests, Gaddafi inexplicably turned around and left. Aides could not account for the mercurial leader's sudden exit, which left the four-day anti- American get-together to speakers ranging from American Indian militants to seasoned '60s radicals and at least one British Labor...
...people in Santiago's Parque O'Higgins. While his previous appearances had been mostly peaceful, this one was marked by perhaps the ugliest violence the Pope has witnessed during all his foreign travels. As protesters unfurled anti-Pinochet banners, threw stones and set fires not far from the papal platform, police opened up with tear gas and water cannons. Some heard gunshots ring out. At least 161 people were injured. The Pontiff continued to speak but at times held his head in sorrow, and later declared, "Love is stronger than hate." After leaving Santiago, John Paul visited six other Chilean...