Word: disavower
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...like Goodell and other recent arrivals in the anti-war camp, the stronger inclination is to disavow Hanoi's acclaim and find ways of proving that responsible anti-war stands don't actually serve the North Vietnamese or National Liberation Front. But for those of us who aren't running for re-election next year, it is possible and very worthwhile to ask whether we should continue to pretend that we're not supporting the enemy in Vietnam when by our actions we plainly are. In fact, the anti-war movement has reached the stage where it finally...
...must object to the article published about me in last Friday's Crimson on the following grounds: (1) Comments were attributed to me in a distorted way completely out of the context of the factual description of my case. When presented in this manner, I must disavow them entirely because they are a distortion of the truth. (2) The article made no reference to the facts of the case which can be summarized as follows: My charges are that Tufts University has violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as amended, by firing me discriminatorily after having condoned...
...Democratic Action characterized Rehnquist as a "lawyer without compassion for blacks and other minorities" and one who "believes in unchecked Executive power, whether it is security wiretapping or the surveillance of individuals." Rauh's testimony was so vitriolic that when he intimated that Rehnquist had failed to disavow any "connections" with societies similar to the John Birch Society, Rauh was sharply rebuked by Senator Kennedy. (The false report of the nominee's Birch membership came from the Associated Press, and had already been scotched when Mississippi Senator James Eastland, chairman of the committee, presented an affidavit from Rehnquist...
...another development yesterday, government attorneys said that time has run out on Federal judge W. Arthur Garrity's order that the government state whether or not they have wiretapped Noam Chomsky and Richard Falk. Garrity ordered the government to avow or disavow wiretapping before it could subpoena...
...been in question. Last year he eased Robert Finch, a close friend who was then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, out of his job, in part for pressing too hard on integration. Finch's replacement, Elliot Richardson, has now been left stranded. Last week, moving abruptly to "disavow" HEW's busing plan for schools in Austin, Texas, Nixon emphatically restated his position: "I have consistently opposed the busing of our nation's schoolchildren to achieve a racial balance, and I am opposed to the busing of children simply for the sake of busing. Further, while...