Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty Council member said last night that McKinney moved yesterday to allow a faculty committee to determine the responsibilities of the minority recruiter because "he found himself in an untenable position...
Prior to the meeting, the club's election committee had decided to allow 12 members of the club, who had to attend mandatory meetings at the Fox and Owl clubs while the Republican Club elections were held, to vote by absentee ballots. But at the actual election meeting club members voted to disallow the ballots...
Henry Kissinger sought to avoid this trap by arguing that policy must be based on a mutual self-interest, not on moral approval. Principles could be proclaimed, but any attempt to change conditions in other countries had to be made behind the scenes, if only because sovereign nations cannot allow themselves to be pushed around in public...
...They charged that the victims had been taken to an army barracks, where they were bullied, beaten and finally shot. Some reports even had it that Amin himself had pulled the trigger, but Amin angrily denied the charge, and there were, of course, no firsthand witnesses. Amin refused to allow the archbishop's family to view his body before soldiers buried the sealed coffin in his native village. Some Ugandans doubted that the coffin contained Luwum's remains; they suspected that Amin had destroyed the evidence of murder by burning the body or feeding it to the crocodiles...
...unofficial committee which monitors Soviet compliance with the individual civil rights provision in the 1975 Karl Strauch, professor of Physics and one of the signers of the February 18 telegram, said yesterday he hopes concern from so many prominent scientists will encourage Soviet officials to free Orlov and allow him to return to his work...