Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of American scientists--led by two Harvard professors--is trying to convince President Johnson to abandon the project. Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, and Dr. John T. Edsall, professor of Biological Chemistry, have collected the signatures of over 5000 scientists in support of a letter to Johnson asking him to stop using these weapons in Vietnam, and to "categorically declare the intention of the U.S. to refrain from initiating the use" of them in the future...
Britain probably can count on enough votes to limit Security Council action, and can always resort to the veto to block total sanctions. But a veto would only put London in serious trouble with its own former African colonies, many of whom have been threatening for months to abandon the Commonwealth over Rhodesia. Even limited sanctions would pose a crisis for the U.N. If they are imposed, South Africa might be forced to resign from the world body...
Impatient at the slow pace of progress in unity, plenty of young Protestant thinkers, including some on the World Council's staff in Geneva, have wondered whether ecumenism is possible within the framework of existing churches. Visser 't Hooft understands the impatience, but remains convinced that to abandon the church as institution is to abandon the hope of unity for good. "An ecumenical movement not rooted in the churches would just lead to yet another confession and a new division," he insists. "We must forget about the notion that others will do the job of unity...
...said that in a runoff or special election, voters could insist that write-ins be counted. The write-in campaign would probably be better organized than it was Nov. 8. Then a series of indecisive runoff elections might wind up in a total stalemate. "This may require Georgia to abandon its desirable majority system of election," Bolton declared...
...some conservatives, any tampering with the institution of the fourth vow was the first step in weakening the chain of loyalty that binds the Jesuits to the Pope. Paul, apparently, was worried about this too. Equally disturbing, in his view, was another suggestion that the Society abandon the rule of a compulsory hour each day for mental prayers; Paul called prayer "the indispensable armor for the soldier of Christ...