Word: request
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...keeping force to protect Haitian voters. He was joined by Sylvio Claude, a Haitian presidential candidate who was one of the front runners. Dante Fascell of Florida, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the U.S. should provide military support as a last resort if Namphy's foes request...
...couple, who identified themselves as Japanese Tourist Shinichi Hachiya and his daughter Mayumi, were about to leave Bahrain for Rome when immigration officials, accompanied by a Japanese diplomat, stopped them. A South Korean request for Tokyo to check travel documents had revealed that the woman held a fake passport. She would have to return to Japan. Asked if he wanted to proceed to Rome, her companion said, "It is useless to travel alone." As a guard watched over them in the Bahrain airport, the woman took out a pack of Marlboros. Removing a glass capsule, the couple consumed an unknown...
Conroy said that since the foundation exists solely to benefit the college, "the president could request the funds [he paid for the land] on behalf of the college." However, under no circumstances could he use those funds for personal reasons, Conroy said...
...Gerry Studds (D-Ma.), who wrote the settlement legislation, has urged the subcommittee to reject the request, contending it would jeopardize the agreement scheduled to take effect...
Schwammberger, 75, took refuge in Argentina in the late 1940s. In recent years he was protected by friends in high places. But early this year an Argentine judge took up the extradition request that was lodged by West Germany 14 years ago and eventually caught up with him. The former commander of a labor camp for Jews at Przemysl, Poland, will stand trial in West Germany for murdering hundreds...