Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Contras" ¶ 54
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

State and Department
In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.
Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.
The State Department tacitly rejected the neutral Laos idea after the Geneva conference of 1954, and last year Washington backed the rightist coup that ousted neutral Premier Souvanna Phouma.
A senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Jackson of Washington has been going over the State Department and has reached some predictable conclusions.
In addition Rep. Frelinghuysen's brother Harry was on the Korean desk of the State Department in World War 2.
State Department officials refusing to show their passes at the boundary, and driving two blocks into East Berlin under military escort, will not avail.
The fullest cooperation by and with Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Department of State, and other concerned agencies shall also be carried out in the interest of achieving the objectives of this Act.
It is the concern of the Department of State that the American people are safe and secure -- defense is not a monopoly concern of the Department of Defense.
It is also the concern of the Department of State that our trading relationships with the rest of the world are vigorous, profitable, and active -- this is not just a passing interest or a matter of concern only to the Department of Commerce.
If the Department of State is to take primary responsibility for foreign policy in Washington, it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas.
Mr. Truman emphasized this point by saying, `` You fellows in the Department of State don't know much about domestic politics ''.
Perhaps existing Public Health Service, State Department and Armed Services medical facilities can be utilized.
Pending the reorganization of our foreign aid structure and program, the Peace Corps should be established as an agency in the Department of State.
Meanwhile, the Peace Corps could be physically located in ICA's facilities and depend on the State Department and ICA for administrative support and, when needed, program assistance.
This temporary Peace Corps is being established under existing authority in the Mutual Security Act and will be located in the Department of State.
In the Dunn-Atherton memorandum of February 4, 1942, the State Department had expected to be able to hold Russia in check by withholding agreement to her 1941 boundaries.
`` The Groth Institute '', which was established in 1958, is a group activity affiliated with the Physics Department of The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa..
Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.
After promoting Frost's appearance at the Inauguration, he persuaded the poet to return several months later to give a reading to a select audience of Cabinet members, members of Congress, and other Washington notables gathered in the State Department auditorium.

State and spokesman
President Harding was very specific in commenting on the appointment of Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, that the secretary would be the sole spokesman for the State Department ( as opposed to the Wilson administration ).
He became the spokesman for the State Department's ambitious plans to rebuild Europe.
French foreign minister and former UN Kosovo chief, Bernard Kouchner, warned that a unilateral declaration would split the European Union over recognition of the independence, whilst US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack commented that, ' There is nothing to be gained by short-circuiting the diplomatic process that is under way.
The PRC Foreign Minister emphasised that the Anti-Secession Law was not a piece of unenforceable legislation, while the US Department of State spokesman Sean McCormack described Chen's policy as " unhelpful ".
In subsequent public statements, the President underlined his belief that his Secretary of State was his " primary adviser on foreign affairs, and in that capacity, he is the chief formulator and spokesman for foreign policy for this administration.
US State Department spokesman P. J Crowley also said that returning North Korea to the list was under continual review.
Paincourtville was the birthplace of former Louisiana State Representative Frank Fulco, Sr., of Shreveport, who served from 1956 – 1972 and was a known as a spokesman for Italian-American causes.
Allegations made by Balkan media sources of corruption and improper conduct by Ahtisaari were described by US State Department spokesman Tom Casey as " spurious ", adding that Ahtisaari's plan is the " best solution possible " and has the " full endorsement of the United States ".
* Jean-François Copé, delegate minister for budget and the reform of the State, spokesman for the Government ;
In 1863 he became minister president of the Council of State, and on the death of AAM Billault minister of state and chief spokesman of the emperor.
Prior to serving in the White House as press secretary to Clinton, McCurry served as spokesman for the Department of State from 1993 to 1995, as well as chief spokesman for Warren Christopher.
Amanpour is married to James Rubin, a former Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration and currently an informal adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.
In 1998 Rubin, who at the time was spokesman for the US State Department, married Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN.
The U. S. State Department spokesman on numerous occasions has addressed the situation of the Bahá ' í and Jewish communities.
U. S. State Department spokesman said that the United States wished to " applaud China's success in becoming only the third country to launch people into space ".
* – Deputy State Department spokesman Adam Ereli congratulated China on the launch of its second manned spacecraft, and applauded its success as only the third nation with this capability.
He was promoted by Charles Kennedy in December 2005 to Shadow Minister of State for Scotland, while continuing as a spokesman on International Development.
He was made a spokesman on health by Iain Duncan Smith for a year in 2001, until he joined his shadow cabinet as the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2002.
He served as a frontbench spokesman for the Labour Party, including Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland under Neil Kinnock, 1987 – 94, an appointment that was widely criticised by Unionists.
The " unbalanced focus " of the ratification was criticized by U. S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly, U. S. ambassador to the UNHRC Douglas Griffiths and Richard Goldstone himself

State and Charles
* Fredrick Charles Weber, The Present State of Russia ( 2 vols.
Charles Fleetwood was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety and of the Council of State, and one of the seven commissioners for the army.
* 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
* Charles Cyphers as the Secretary of State
After the Restoration, Charles ' Scottish affairs were managed by senior noblemen, the most prominent of whom was John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, his Secretary of State and High Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament.
The Pope had been forced out of Rome as part of the Revolutions of 1848, and Louis Napoleon sent a 14, 000 man expeditionary force of troops to the Papal State under General Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot to restore him.
* 1922 – In Washington D. C., U. S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
Caribbean governments have been coming under increased pressure from their electorates to devise ways to override previous rulings by the JCPC such as: Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan v The Attorney General for Jamaica ( 1993 ) Jeffrey Joseph v The Queen for Barbados ( 2002 ), and Charles Matthews v The State of Trinidad & Tobago ( 2004 ), all of which are Privy Council judgments concerning the death penalty in the Caribbean region.
In 1886, Landis first ventured into Republican Party politics, supporting a friend, Charles F. Griffin for Indiana Secretary of State.
September ’ 95, Kpormakpor ’ s Council of State is succeeded by one under civilian Wilton G. S. Sankawulo and with the factional heads Charles Taylor, Alhaji Kromah and George Boley in it.
In 1830 Captain Charles Sturt reached the river after travelling down its tributary the Murrumbidgee River and named it the Murray River in honour of the then British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Sir George Murray, not realising it was the same river that Hume and Hovell had encountered further upstream.
* Charles R. Floyd, Democratic State Senator who served three four-year terms ; pioneer of the Texas Farm-to-market road system and an original founder of Paris Junior College
* Christian introductions may be found in Schubert M. Ogden's The Reality of God and Other Essays ( Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-87074-318-X ); John B. Cobb, Doubting Thomas: Christology in Story Form ( New York: Crossroad, 1990, ISBN 0-8245-1033-X ); and Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes ( Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984, ISBN 0-87395-771-7 ).
Shortly after the bombing, while driving on I-35 in Noble County, near Perry, Oklahoma, McVeigh was stopped by Oklahoma State Trooper Charles J. Hanger from Pawnee, Oklahoma.
Charles Evans Hughes, former Supreme Court Justice and Harding's Secretary of State
Harding's Secretary of State, Charles E. Hughes, assumed a primary role in the conference and made the pivotal proposal — the U. S was to reduce its number of warships by 30 if Great Britain decommissioned 19, and Japan 17 ships.
* Charles P. White, former Indiana Secretary of State
Charles Townshend to the Exchequer, Shelburne as Secretary of State, to order American affairs.
** Charles Robberts Swart 1st State President of South Africa ( b. 1894 )
* December 12 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, is demoted from his office as Secretary of State for the Northern Department in the British government and replaced by James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope.
These discussions led to unofficial contacts with the British Northern Ireland Office under the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Brooke, and with the government of the Republic under Charles Haughey – although both governments maintained in public that they would not negotiate with terrorists.
It was later sold for £ 45 and five shillings at auction in May 1819 as a " Crocodile in a Fossil State " to Charles Konig, of the British Museum, who had already suggested the name Ichthyosaurus for it.

0.712 seconds.