Word: disavowal
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...About a month ago, Liu, in the words of one London trader, "simply vanished." The Financial Times quoted a source saying that last week Liu was at home in Shanghai with his cell phone turned off, but TIME was unable to confirm this. Meanwhile, the SRB has appeared to disavow his deals; the state-owned China Daily newspaper quoted an SRB official saying that any losses were the result "of personal actions" by Liu "instead of the government...
...time of the leak and that as recently as the late 1990s she was working as a nonofficial cover (NOC) officer, one of a select group of operatives within the CIA who are placed in neutral-seeming environments abroad and collect secrets, knowing that the U.S. government will disavow any connection with them should they be caught. NOC officers cost millions of dollars to train and support. As a result of the leak, Plame is no longer able to work undercover...
...Botha disavow, as some had expected, South Africa's existing homelands (there are now ten, four of which are "independent"). Instead, he endorsed the concept as a "material part of the solution," but added that "independence cannot be forced on any community." If people in certain designated homelands did not accept "independence," he said vaguely, they "will remain a part of the South African nation, are South African citizens, and should be accommodated within political institutions within the boundaries of the Republic of South Africa." The President also dashed expectations of breakthrough reform surrounding South Africa's influx controls...
...students devoted to constructive dialogue on campus and peace among Israelis and Palestinians, we cannot allow such hateful propaganda to dominate the discourse and polarize the campus. We are deeply disappointed that the PSC engaged in such reprehensible conduct, and we call on their leadership to publicly disavow the misinformation they set forth...
...will offer the remaining 10% a plural society. If they disavow the use of force and violence, if they forswear the use of guns and agree to disband the N.P.A., there is no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to join the political mainstream. If they resist, they will have declared themselves as public enemies, but they will be easier to subdue...