Word: disbands
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Though covert South African support for the M.N.R. is expected to end, the group is not likely to disband. Evo Fernandes, leader of the M.N.R.'s delegation to the cease-fire talks, declared that the rebels "will not accept the presence of South African troops on Mozambican territory." As for the Machel government, he added, "the war continues, and we may have to escalate our actions...
...Some Western diplomats in Damascus contend, however, that Assad now fears that the growing violence against the Israelis in southern Lebanon may trigger a retaliatory attack by Israel against Syrian troops. These diplomats do not believe that Damascus has dropped its demand that Jerusalem unilaterally withdraw its soldiers and disband the Israeli-supplied Lebanese militia that helps patrol the region. Syria, however, may offer vague assurances that Israel's northern border will be protected from terrorist attacks. One possibility includes deploying the Lebanese Army in the south and beefing up the 5,700-man U.N. peace-keeping force...
...concern about the effect of Hart's charge that Mondale had played fast and loose with campaign-finance laws by having supposedly independent delegate committees accept and spend on his behalf donations that mostly came from labor political-action committees (PACs). Mondale has ordered the delegate committees to disband and pledged to give back about $300,000 in PAC money, but Hart continued to hammer away at the subject all last week...
...keeping more than 100,000 political prisoners behind bars. The ruling mullahs admit to just 2,000 to 3,000 executions, but they have nonetheless systematically eliminated every group that does not conform to their beliefs. Last May they forced the Tudeh Communist Party to denounce itself publicly and disband. In August they suspended the Hojjatieh Society, an esoteric Shi'ite Muslim splinter group that refuses to interpret the Koran in the fashion approved by the mullahs. During the past five years the regime has also incited mobs to desecrate the shrines of the Baha'i faith, drive...
Ball felt that though the fraternity members would abide by the college's decision, "the fraternities will go on in purpose. There's just no way you can disband 100 people who live, eat and sleep together in two months...