Word: request
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Overseers interviewed yesterday said they had made an agreement not to disclose details of the search or the names of those under consideration. Several said they wanted to preserve the search committee's request for secrecy since the Board has been granted an unprecedented amount of input into the search process...
...vindication of its First Amendment rights and began to air more Noriega phone calls. These conversations suggested that the prisoner was making surreptitious banking transactions, a charge filed by the Panamanian government in another court proceeding last week. Meanwhile, four competing news organizations rushed before Judge Hoeveler to request the transcripts of the phone calls...
Stephanie Atkinson, who said she was recently discharged from the U.S. Army under "other than honorable circumstances" for her request to obtain conscientious objector status, described her experience with the military to the audience of more than 150 people...
...President Bush not to reconvene Congress because representatives might not support military action. "Maybe it was too much to ask with the gridlock of the budget and on the eve of the election," Senator Daniel P. Moynihan told the New York Times, commenting on the failure of Congress to request a formal meeting with the Bush administration to discuss Gulf policy...
...passage of the Thursday resolution required weeks of special lobbying by Secretary of State James Baker, and even so, is carefully worded to reduce its severity as much as possible. The six weeks period of grace inserted into the resolution came at the request of the Soviet Union, and a direct reference to "use of force" was removed from a draft version by the United States to prevent a Chinese veto...