Word: abstain
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...said he will abstain from voting when the matter comes before the full council in several weeks...
...added that while it was easy to abstain from voting, it is difficult not to become involved in the discussion-especially when a committee member feels he can add new information which the group otherwise would not have...
...lining up the nine votes necessary to pass a resolution "deeply deploring" the U.S.S.R. in the 15-nation Security Council was surprisingly difficult. China, considered a sure yes vote, decided that its antipathy toward South Korea outweighed its desire to humiliate the Soviet Union. It announced that it would abstain. Other Third World nations, including Zimbabwe and Guyana, argued that disputes over the facts of the incident made it impossible to single out the Soviets for blame. Applying strong pressure, U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick was able to win the reluctant support of Jordan and Malta, thus corralling enough votes...
Although South African investments are the center of attention, the ACSR has made recommendations on other stocks. The Corporation agreed with its suggestion to abstain on company shareholder resolutions which deal with nuclear weapons but has not acted on their recommendation to divest from Philip Morris because the company makes cigarettes...
Student ACSR member Jonathan G. Cedarbaum '83 said yesterday he was surprised by the Corporation's decision to abstain, adding that Harvard's support of direct sales to South Africa is "very extreme...