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...subcommittee plans to re-examine next week its policy of supporting disclosure of political gifts only in companies whose gifts are known to be "substantial," Calkins said. The ACSR requested the re-examination last week, when Harvard said it would abstain on disclosure resolutions aimed at Eastman Kodak and International Telephone and Telegraph...
...quick to point out. But they're not exactly cause for confidence in ITT's claims of noninvolvement in this country's other political campaigns. And even if they were, it's hard to see why a university, existing for the advancement of truth, should ever oppose -- or even abstain on -- people's free access to information of any sort...
...committee recommended that the trustees abstain from voting on a resolution calling for American Metal to curtail its investments and operations in Namibia, South Africa...
...most visible form of Hinduism in the West is the Krishna Consciousness movement, founded in the U.S. in 1966 by Swami A.C. Bhaktivedanta. Its saffron-robed "Hare Krishna" chanters are found on the street corners of many American cities. Like many Hindus, they abstain from meat and alcohol-even from eggs, which they see as embryonic life. A married woman is expected to renounce sex when she is 30 and send her children away to a school in Texas. Like austere Christian monks, the group members rise in the middle of the night to pray. Their Hare Krishna mantra...
...provides that the South Vietnamese decide for themselves the "procedures and modalities" by which the National Council will hold elections and determine the offices to be contested. By leaving the problem of implementation to the South Vietnamese, the new peace agreement satisfies Hanoi's demand that the United States abstain from any attempt to impose a government in the South. At the same time, the agreement takes into account the UnitedStates's demand that the present Saigon government remain intact at least for the duration of the political settlement...