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...Corporation voted to abstain on a resolution that would prohibit Texaco from making sales to the South African military and police. The ACSR had recommended voting in favor of the resolution...
...face. The expression is often like that on the face of a meek cow and gives one the feeling as a cow occasionally does, that in her own dump manner she is saying something." He refused to educate his sons, ordered them as young men to abstain from sex, and disowned the eldest, Harilal, for warning to get married. His son eventuallty attacked Gandhi in print, converted to Islam, and died an alcoholic...
...effect," said Jeffrey Lubitz, spokesman for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. "It was totally contrary to the ideals of the family-planning program established by Congress." Foes of the rule have consistently maintained that parental notification would cause many teen-agers to boycott family-planning clinics but not abstain from sex. "The only effect the rule would have would be to keep kids from using reliable methods of birth control," said Peter Brownlie, executive director of Planned Parenthood in Fort Worth...
...Without warning Genscher, he met with President Karl Carstens and informed him that he intended to call for new elections. Schmidt's strategy was a long shot. First, he would have to ask for a vote of confidence in the Bundestag. By instructing S.P.D. members of parliament to abstain, he would arrange to lose the vote. Schmidt could then call for new elections, which would have to be held within 60 days. But there was one catch. Schmidt would need Opposition Leader Kohl's support for new elections. Otherwise, the Christian Democrats could rush in while the Bundestag...
...asked Spadolini to form a new government. A lifelong Socialist, Pertini then reportedly reminded Craxi that in Italian politics the party that precipitates early elections usually suffers the most at the ballot box. Ultimately, Craxi appears to have been influenced by an equally persuasive fear: that the Communists would abstain in key parliamentary votes, allowing a minority government without the Socialists to stay in power...