Word: abstentionism
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By a vote of 66-0 with a single abstention--Liberia--the 82-nation Assembly approved a recommendation of its Steering Committee that it take up the Syrian complaint that a threat exists to Syrian security and also to world peace.
Konrad Adenauer hit the ceiling. In this election year the opposition, Socialists and Free Democrats, have vigorously decried any attempt to equip the Bundeswehr with tactical atomic weapons. Since Adenauer had intended from the start to get his nuclear weapons from the U.S.-Germany is treaty-bound not to produce...
For the 3,000 people who got passes for the public galleries, the first sign of dying zombiism was the seating of the 457 Deputies. In previous parliaments the few non-Communist Deputies had been isolated and surrounded by Communists. This time each Deputy filing into the semicircular chamber took...
But the situation is humorous, and the spoof of prudery is carried off well. The local home guard captain feels it his duty to protect the morals of the people and a typically severe Calvinist mother tries to prolong her son's abstention. Happily, neither can alter human nature. Basil...
Finally the head council of the world body ordered him for the fifth time and unanimously (with one abstention) to hold the plebiscite, but it was too late. The Moral Authority, the bridge between two worlds, the man who had cast dust into the eyes of the world that he...