Word: support
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harvard student group opposed to war in the Middle East tabled outside of Widener library yesterday, seeking to garner support for the removal of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia...
...Harvey St. is a 20-foot-wide street, very congested and has inadequate parking to support such a large congregation," said Judy A. Miskell, an area resident who has actively opposed the church's establishment. "This building is going from a two-man woodworking shop, very low-impact, to a 200- to 300-person congregation...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) prepares to formally debate internationalization plans for the second time today, it appears that discussion will focus on the three proposals which received support at October's FAS meeting...
...host of other troubles bedevils the coalition. Moscow is too busy with domestic crises to do more than offer moral support. Understandably, popular enthusiasm for a foreign military adventure is not great at a time when Soviet mothers are still mourning sons killed in Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia and Syria cringe at the idea of a conflict pitting Arab against Arab. They remain uncomfortable with being -- at least theoretically -- aligned with Israel, which, though it has no troops committed to the gulf, is undoubtedly in favor of striking Iraq. Waiting for war may not corrode strength of arms, but it does...
...believed it had found an unlikely ally in extremis: the World Jewish Congress. History professor Michael Wolffsohn of Munich's Bundeswehr University says records of private meetings held between East German leaders and W.J.C. delegations before the Communist regime collapsed show that a representative of the Jewish group expressed support for keeping East Germany a separate state. "Reunification is not on the agenda," Maram Stern, an aide to W.J.C. president Edgar Bronfman, was quoted as telling the East Germans. "The W.J.C. will do everything it can so that it should not come about." Wolffsohn examined the East German documents last...