Word: abolishment
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...sure that the policies get off the ground and are adequately funded. They virtually never vote together on behalf of Cambridge's interests--indeed, the one vote last year affecting the city in which they came together as a bloc was against the city's interests, an effort to abolish proportional representation. This year's executive reorganization bill was resisted in part by Cambridge legislators who feared for their patronage powers, preferring fat, inefficient state agencies to less cumbersome ones...
President Bok moved just a shade closer to supporting the return of ROTC to Harvard last week, telling the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), in a closed meeting that the 1969 Faculty decision to abolish ROTC was made under extreme pressure and great haste...
...ultimatum, issued last week, calls on South Africa to enfranchise blacks, abolish apartheid, and hold a new constitutional convention. There has been no official response, but rebellions have reportedly broken out in several places and the country is in turmoil. U.S. Marines are ready to land. One of them, Rodney Jones of Buffalo, said today, "I'm ready. South Africa's kind of racism has no place in a civilized world, and we are going...
...Nixon then appointed Solicitor General Robert Bork acting Attorney General and directed him to fire Cox and abolish Cox's entire operation, including his staff of more than 60 attorneys, who have been investigating the pervasive scandal for five months. Bork obeyed, and within hours the nation witnessed the spectacle of FBI agents sealing off the offices and papers of the two top Justice Department men as well as those of Cox and his aides...
...reaction to the Cambodian invasion and a general university anti-war strike, the faculty voted in 1971 to abolish ROTC. The Army and Air Force withdrew completely, but the Navy stayed until its contract with the university expired in June...