Word: abandons
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...bastion of white supremacy was only slightly less appalling to the South Africans than the prospect of refusing a visa to a possible future president of the United States. By stating his intention to visit South Africa in spite of the banning, Senator Kennedy has refused to abandon the South African students at a time when they most need outside encouragement. By associating himself with the cause of individual liberty in South Africa, he is setting an example which other Americans might follow...
...governing the gear's operation had malfunctioned, causing the doors to start closing before the gear had fully retracted. One door had knifed into a tire, and the entire mechanism was locked in an inoperative position. Inability to free it would leave the pilots no choice but to abandon their aircraft over the desert, since the plane is too heavy and comes in too fast (300 m.p.h.) for an emergency belly landing...
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard refuses to be bullied. "There can be no throwback to occupation status," he declared in Berlin last week. "Nor will we abandon our position that French troops [in West Germany] must have a definite task within defense planning." A tripartite group of British, West German and U.S. diplomats last week produced a paper that said much the same thing; it will serve as Bonn's bargaining position in next month's talks with the French. Erhard hopes that the 27,000 French troops in Germany will remain on station, linked unilaterally with the West Germans...
...state-wide election. Nor are the Republicans likely to recapture the reapportioned State House or Senate this year. Republicans will probably win back one to three of the four Congressional seats they lost in 1964, but that may not be enough to convince hard-boiled national convention delegates to abandon the more congenial Richard Nixon...
...representatives suggested an immediate walk-out, but Keaty insisted that to abandon the patients would attract unfavorable publicity and allenate uncommitted employees. Instead, he advised pulling out non-essential workers, such as porters and kitchen employees, to fore the hospital to bring in expensive catering and housecleaning contractors...