Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board had denied my request, my family would have aimed me for Canada, I'm sure. But I had been thinking that Canada was too ambiguous an option to be a real protest. If I went to jail for my convictions there would be less ambiguity. And my reading that year was full of precedents: Thoreau, Eugene Debs, Daniel Berrigan, even George Fox, the first Quaker. I can't say now what I would have done, but I know my sympathies were with the resisters in American prisons. If it didn't stop the war, it would sure...
...subject he says he doesn't plan to do anything with, but he wanted very much to learn a language. Large brown folders on his bookshelf containing big sheets of paper are his Spanish dictionary, and underneath that are piles of tapes that are mailed to him on request by a non-profit foundation in New York. If he's lucky, he can get tapes of most of his books, but this year, he and his roommate Mike Schindley say they struck out in tutorial readings. Mike xeroxes his roommate's reading lists and sends away to New York...
...overwhelmingly supported Rodell's request. "I supported the decision for two reasons: first, because the two women are Radcliffe undergraduates; second, because there was a precedent in that the RUS used to give loans or grants for abortions," Anna K. Clark '79, vice president of the RUS, said yesterday...
...early last week, when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance arrived in Jerusalem on an eight-day Middle East trip. He told Vance that he wanted to go to Washington to discuss a new set of Middle East peace proposals with Carter. The surprised Vance swiftly forwarded the request. Within three hours the White House replied: Come ahead...
...crowd had come at Marcos' request for a final massive rally last week on the night before the second nationwide referendum that Filipinos have been called to vote on in 14 months. Once again the question was whether Marcos, 60, guiding his country into parliamentary democracy by the questionable route of martial law, should head it as both President and Prime Minister after a new transitional legislature, known as the Batasang Pambansa, is instituted next year...