Word: disbandment
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...stake in many of those details is the key question of how the Communists can be prevented from seizing control of the new South Viet Nam government. U.S. intelligence sources report ominously that captured documents indicate that Hanoi is instructing many of its forces not to disband after the cease-fire but to reorganize as Viet Cong guerrilla-style units and continue terror and harassment tactics...
...popkin's sentence seemed to indicate that it had a definite idea of what he could provide for them, and that it was willing to wait to get it. Nevertheless, in an extremely surprising move, representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office asked District Judge Frank J. Murray to disband the grand jury, thus automatically freeing popkin...
They said that Elisberg's trial would probably extend past the grand jury's January 12 expiration date and that for this reason the grand jury should disband. The grand jury entered no indictments during its 16-month existence...
Popkin speculated that perhaps the grand jury was prepared to disband earlier but remained in session long enough to force him late prison...
...ISSUE from Harvard's complicity in the war effort to insufficient funds for staff meal pools in the Houses, undergraduate opposition to University policies crystallizes in a highly predictable way. Ad hoc groups evolve, bring their complaints to the Faculty and Administration, get turned down, and disband, complaining that a Bok-Dunlop oligarchy is frustrating student demands. If and when the Administration responds to these petitions, their rejections are equally typical; each explanation, in part, insists that student protestors without a broad base of support cannot claim legitimacy as undergraduate negotiators...