Word: rescindment
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...attempt to forestall further demonstrations, the government enacted a new law that empowered the army to rescind the draft deferments of any student who boycotted classes. The law only spurred more protests. Strikes and demonstrations spread to the University of Athens and to the Aristotelian University of Salonika to the north. The students have called a temporary truce, but another mass rally is scheduled for this week. If the government does not back down, warns one student leader, "we will come down the streets...
Last December, after Chief Justice Warren Burger complained about the smokers on the Amtrak Metroliners between Washington and New York, cigars and pipes were prohibited in first-class cars. Pipe-puffing Senator Hugh Scott wrote to Non-Smoker Burger to ask him to rescind his request to Amtrak: "May it please the court," said Scott, he wanted a ruling "to the effect that pipe smokers may enjoy the use of the presently interdicted area for the indulgence of their contemplative addiction." Burger's answer to Scott has not been revealed...
Alvin E. Thompson, president of the Cambridge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, asked the Committee last night to rescind the cuts in community patrols...
...celibacy; as a result, few single men have applied. Most of the married deacons resent the Pope's ruling that a widowed deacon cannot remarry, even though that ruling could leave young children motherless (one Detroit deacon has 13 children). Many American bishops would like the Vatican to rescind both stipulations...
...hoped would be a return to power after twelve years of exile in Madrid. He had entered Argentina 28 days earlier like a returning folk hero. He exited like a rejected ward heeler, frustrated by the refusal of Argentina's current strongman, Alejandro Lanusse, to rescind an edict requiring presidential candidates to have been in Argentina on Aug. 25 (Lanusse announced last week that he will not be a candidate either). Perón had also been hurt by defections within his own Justicialist Front. Four parties dropped out amidst arguments about sharing the lesser candidacies. With the others...