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...will not be permitted to take seats, speak, make proposals or vote. Although the ruling extends only through the current session, which ends Dec. 17, South Africa's opponents have threatened to repeat the move in future sessions unless Prime Minister John Vorster's government agrees to relinquish its control over Namibia (South West Africa), end its military support of Rhodesia's white supremacist government, and abandon its own apartheid policies. Vorster has indicated his willingness to accommodate world opinion on all three issues. "If South Africa is given the chance," he promised recently, "they [local...
...throne in 1940. Though he ruled with a fabled fondness for splendor, pomp and courtly ritual, Wadiyar also did much to modernize his 125,000-sq.mi. realm. In 1947, when India began consolidating the 550 princely states left behind after British rule, Wadiyar was one of the first potentates to relinquish his sovereignty; from 1956 to 1964 he served as appointed Governor of Mysore, and from 1964 to 1967 as Governor of Madras, Mysore's neighbor to the east...
Just why Harvard wants to divest the houses is not clear. Most of the homes lie within the boundaries of the University's acquisition map, and Harvard clearly does not want to, nor feels any obligation to, relinquish the land to the "community." Just so, the Purchase Option Plan will insure that none of these properties leaves University control. If an owner wishes to sell, Harvard will have first crack at the house, and if a tenant ends his employment with the University, he must relinquish the house...
...enlarge Kyrenia's port. In addition, a new ferry service linking Kyrenia and the Turkish mainland nearly 50 miles away will soon start. The Turkish Cypriots, who are outnumbered almost 5 to 1 by Greek Cypriots on the island of 659,000 people, apparently do not intend to relinquish any of the salient that has been won for them by the Turkish army. Said Rauf Denktas., leader of the 119,000 Turks on Cyprus: "We want Kyrenia to come back to normal, but it will be different now; we will be the master." Denktas. hinted that federation...
While the military has kept its plans for the future a closely held secret, it seems unlikely that the colonels and generals have decided to relinquish all the power they wielded for seven years. A diplomat in Athens skeptically notes, "The military made a mess of the Cyprus situation and the economy. Now they want the civilians to clean it up." Certainly, if the civilian government disintegrates into the bickering factions that paralyzed it in the three years before the 1967 coup or seems to be moving too far leftward, the officers would probably take over again...