Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failure to join at once with the other major Western allies in warning the Soviet Union after the invasion of Czechoslovakia that any aggression against the Federal Republic would be met by force. They were further disappointed that the French had just used their veto at Brussels to reject a preferential-tariff proposal that would have opened the way for Britain's eventual inclusion in the Common Market. As a result, the West Germans were now thinking about organizing a Common Market that would include Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia but omit France, if necessary. Some Germans were also contemplating...
...mote a soft line on contraception are the hierarchies of Austria, Britain and Canada which released statements last week. The Austrian episcopate dutifully commended rhythm or sexual abstinence as the "most proper means" of family planning. Nonetheless, the bish ops added that Catholics who "for ethical reasons" reject the pontifical guide lines "need not necessarily feel that they have separated themselves from God's love." Conscientious objectors to Humanae Vitae may continue to receive Communion without confessing that they practice contraception. The only conditions are that they keep their decision to themselves, refrain "from sowing confusion in the ranks...
...five other resolutions all blasted the Regents for their decision last month to reject Cleaver's appointment and to destroy the Board of Educational Development (BED)--the faculty committee that had created the Cleaver course. By their "hasty and ill considered action," the resolutions said, the Regent had "abolished academic freedom" at Berkeley...
...speaker, Stylianos Patakos, Minister of the Interior and one of the leaders of the regime, asked the crowd at one point if anyone wanted to vote "No" to reject the constitution. Complete silence. "You know, it would help us if you voted No," the speaker said. "Then we would have another 16 months in order to construct a new constitution to submit to you. And that new one will be stricter and less democratic than the one we are giving...
...announcing the Regents' decision to reject Cleaver's appointment, U.C. President Charles J. Hitch said last week that the Regents based their action on "a long-standing Harvard rule that anyone who lectures more than twice must receive official approval...