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DiCara claims that he voted for the bond issue because he does not believe the council has the power to rescind a bond issue it had previously passed. "I refused to stand up and vote with my colleagues on issues that have no meaning," he said after the bond issue vote...
...Liddy that E. Howard Hunt should leave the country. (Hunt had been a member of the White House plumbers and was later convicted of the Watergate wiretapping. Dean testified that he carried out Ehrlichman's instructions, then convinced Ehrlichman that it was a mistake and asked Liddy to rescind the order to Hunt...
Their protests and faith vindicated, advocates of Radcliffe's 1.18-to-1 male-female ratio and defenders of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life were smiling yesterday. CHUL had voted to rescind its much maligned January recommendation that specific sex ratios be eliminated for all houses...
...this contrasts to the way the question was resolved yesterday. The new CHUL's students are just learning the ropes; Wednesday was their first full meeting. After a Radcliffe student made the motion to rescind, only two other committee members, both House masters, spoke. Although other student members wanted to discuss the issue, the question was called because it was past six o'clock--most of the meeting had been wasted on less significant business...
Under the new law, a President who orders troops into action abroad or "substantially" increases the number of foreign-based U.S. troops equipped for combat must report the reason for his action to Congress within 48 hours. Congress could then rescind his order at any time by passing resolutions, which are not subject to White House veto, in both houses. Even if such resolutions are not forthcoming, the President must halt the operation after 60 days unless it has been approved by Congress, though he could prolong it another 30 days by certifying that the additional time is necessary...