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...keep Chancellor Willy Brandt in power. Writing in last week's issue of the illustrated weekly Quick, Steiner (who is currently in hiding, probably outside Germany), confessed that he received 50,000 marks (about $20,000) from a member of Brandt's Social Democratic Party to abstain in a secret vote of confidence on the Brandt coalition government. By not voting against Brandt, Steiner betrayed his own party, the opposition Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), which expected to oust the Chancellor (TIME...
...treaties, he decided that the C.D.U.-C.S.U. deputies should vote against ratification; then, after a bipartisan policy declaration had been worked out, he said he would allow a free vote. Under pressure from C.S.U. Leader Franz Josef Strauss, he changed his mind again and said that the opposition should abstain on the vote. It was an unconvincing display of leadership. Barzel made it even less convincing by leaving the interparty negotiations at their height and going home...
...resolutions, especially resolutions asking for information on corporate support for South Africa that met its exacting--some would say ridiculous--standards of what was "reasonable." It would generally oppose resolutions with whose specifics it disagreed--even if it professed support for the principles involved. And it would oppose or abstain on most substantive resolutions to have companies withdraw from or start affirmative action programs in white-ruled areas of Africa, to have companies stop supplying the weaponry for the war in Indochina, or even to have companies set up study committees on such problems as conversion to peacetime production...
...RECOMMENDING that Harvard abstain on a resolution asking Exxon to form a "broad-based committee" to study the implications of proposed Angolan oil investment, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility last week turned in the most distressing performance of its debut season. Though the resolution raised issues which clearly call for deeper study, the ACSR's current reservations failed to address the purpose of the resolution or the urgency of the Angolan issue...
...ACSR asked Harvard to abstain from voting its Exxon stock on a shareholder resolution to have the company set up a study committee on the implications of its proposed oil exploration off the coast of Angola...