Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aide whispers to President Turgut Ozal that his Prime Minister and senior military advisers have arrived, no doubt to discuss the latest American request for the use of Turkish bases in the attack on Iraq, now only hours away. "Let them wait a moment," says Ozal. "The war is important, but so is the nature of the peace that comes after...
That was just one day after the withdrawing Soviet tanks turned around and rolled back into Budapest. Soviet commanders claimed they were doing so at the request of Kadar, who was actually hiding in a Soviet command post outside the city. Nagy took refuge in the Yugoslav embassy but was later lured out, seized and hanged. After about a month of sporadic fighting, the Hungarian revolt was liquidated...
Last week a U.S. district judge in Montana rejected such arguments and denied the request by the Fund for Animals to stop the bison hunt. Citing the threat that brucellosis infection will spread to cattle, Judge Charles Lovell maintained that "hunting is a time-honored avocation and a legitimate and recognized method of animal control." The Fund for Animals promptly filed an appeal...
After speaking with the five would be-demonstrators who had gathered at Out of Town News, Laughlin and two of the union supporters walked to Cohen's Mass. Ave office, to request that he stop selling the News during the negotiations...
Police refused the driver's request, but spent about 15 minutes erecting barricades and rerouting traffic...