Word: rescind
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...stop using the Special Forces to do its dirty work. 2) The victim was an extremely important agent, possibly a special emissary from President Thieu to Hanoi or a North Vietnamese courier who had already been granted immunity. This would explain the CIA's belated effort to rescind its execution order. It would also explain the trial of the Green Berets as a way for the U.S. to say, in effect: "We are sorry your man got rubbed out." 3) Perhaps most likely, the whole affair is a colossal military snafu. According to this theory, Abrams might have been...
...committee listened to objections, but refused even to consider a proposal to rescind the appointments. Committee member Francis Duehey, assistant dean of the Ed School, said that though he suported many of the parents' objections, he was not going to ask for a vote. "A motion to overturn the appointments would only embarrass three good men," Duehey said...
Britain yesterday gave the Caribbean island of Anguilla 48 hours to rescind its declaration of independence or face invasion...
Previously, the Committee on Financial Aid was able to rescind all scholarship funds from a student put on probation...
...returned frequently to the threat that the Bill of Rights will be amended to rescind the Court's recent decisions. "I hope and believe that the American public will realize that so long as someone else is deprived of justice, they are deprived of justice," he said. He said that the First and Fifth Amendments, special targets of right-wingers, prevent "that knock on the door in the middle of the night...