Word: rescinds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Milk Cartons. Despite the protests, T.U.C. General Secretary Len Murray refused to rescind the invitation. To keep potential demonstrators off balance, the T.U.C. would not disclose when Shelepin's Aeroflot jet would arrive or where he would go. Worried that the Soviet labor leader might be attacked or even assassinated, security agents later dispatched a stand-in resembling the short, heavy-set Russian in a decoy Daimler limousine. He took the brunt of a barrage of umbrellas, milk cartons, bricks and Passover cookies, as the real Shelepin slipped into T.U.C. headquarters through the tradesmen's entrance...
...student government of Boston University's School of Public Communication voted Monday to rescind its invitation to former White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler to speak at the school next month...
...powerful opposition drive protesting that the amendment would abolish many legal safeguards for women, like protective labor legislation, and would require women to be drafted and go into combat. Only eight more states approved the ERA in 1973 and three in 1974. Meanwhile, Nebraska and Tennessee voted to rescind their ratification. (Whether or not to accept these reversals may eventually be up to Congress...
...little attention to Mound Bayou's hospital while it was struggling along on its own. Once the hospital and medical center began receiving regular federal funds, they became interested. Local officials tried to take over the Mound Bayou program -and its funding-but failed. State agencies attempted to rescind the hospital's license on the ground that it failed to meet state standards. They were stymied when Mound Bayou obtained OEO funds to renovate some of its most outmoded facilities...
Early Saturday evening, Csonka called Coach Shula and told him that the three men might well sign if Miami did not offer more. Eventually Keating got on the line. "I was afraid the Canadians might rescind or lower their offer if we waited too long," he says, "so I told Don we needed to hear from Joe Robbie [the Miami principal owner] by the next...