Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country on a law-and-order ticket if the legislation should be defeated. But when news of Dublin's bombings struck, the parliamentary opposition crumbled quickly, averting a crisis. Of two opposition parties, labor voted against Lynch's bill but Fine Gael decided to abstain and the government won easily, 70-23 on the toughest measures taken so far in the republic to put down the I.R.A...
...assumption that crime is a superficial rash," says Harvard Law Professor James Vorenberg, former executive director of the President's crime commission, and now an adviser to George McGovern. "Continuing denial of opportunity, combined with the anonymity of city life, is destroying the social pressure to abstain from crime." Guessing that the odds against catching the average burglar "are no better than 50 to 1," Vorenberg suggests that "crime may seem like a good bet for those whose lives are little more than a struggle for survival...
...Committee (PALC) had reasonably appealed to the University for a publicly announced sale, was doubly irresponsible. For it came with a refusal even to cast a vote of no confidence in the management of Gulf at the annual stockholders' meeting. Instead, the Corporation made a deal with Gulf to abstain from voting for the disclosure of information on Gulf's operations in Angola in return for a voluntary yielding of that information...
...scheduled vote, however, the C.D.U.'s conservative Bavarian wing, Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union, decided to vote against the treaties. Faced with that threat to party unity, Barzel reversed course, and only three hours before the final Bundestag vote, ordered the C.D.U. Deputies to abstain from voting. By opting for party unity instead of statesmanship, he earned the widespread condemnation of the West German press and reinforced his reputation as a political opportunist...
Consider, for example, the case of helicopter pilot Thompson, who landed his craft in the midst of the slaughter by the Americal and who had his machine gunner train his weapon on Lietenant Calley. Calley was made to abstain from shooting 10 women and children whom Thompson whisked away to safety in his helicopter. Even though he had initially filed a report with superiors which condemned the killings, Thompson submitted another statement that the rescued civilians were hiding in a bunker "located between friendly and hostile forces engaged in a heavy fire fight." Thompson won the Distinguished Flying Cross, even...