Word: confirms
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...stake were Mugabe's hopes for stemming the white exodus that has recently reached record levels of over 1,500 a month. Whites have been increasingly alarmed by the persistence of rural lawlessness, and the involvement of a Cabinet Minister in the latest cold-blooded attack seemed to confirm their worst fears. Says a U.S. southern Africa expert: "Whites have always had a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy that black rule would mean the end of all civilized standards. In the Tekere affair, they see the beginning of the end." Indeed, last week White Community Leader Ian Smith...
Rule F(3c) destroys any possibility of a late challenge to the front-runner's nomination. What Democrats really did last night was to confirm, in their party at least, the tyranny of the early primaries and to make a challenge to an incumbent even more difficult than it already...
Green and other government spokesmen yesterday refused to confirm or deny the figures, saying it will take at least 90 days for regional Internal Revenue Service offices to computerize lists of registrants and for the Selective Service to compile preliminary figures...
...that office reveal that at least two students called for information, and that the DA's office, without informing them that they might be setting a full-scale investigation into progress, decided to act on them as if they were formal complaints. The DA's office refused to confirm the sources' story or to reveal the names of the students who phoned for information...
...unwilling or unable to take any significant action that would win friends or influence allies, especially where the occupied territories are concerned. Last week the Knesset law committee endorsed a backbencher's bill that would legalize the annexation of East Jerusalem, which the Israelis seized in 1967, and confirm the city as Israel's permanent capital. On the same day, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution deploring Israeli attempts to change the status of Jerusalem. The vote was 14 to 0, with the U.S. abstaining...