Word: retreated
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...although he is still visible: the cartoonist has essentially returned to his Greenwich Village roots in the more limited-audience Village Voice. For the mainstream left, he is largely replaced by his equivalent in modern-day sociopolitical commentary, Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, Feiffer's America underlines this retreat to the outskirts, but still preserves the high points of a brilliant career...
Despite persistent U.S. protests, West Germany, France and other Western nations are committed to supplying financing and materials for the Soviet gas pipeline and have refused to retreat from this position. Why, ask the Europeans, should they forgo the profits from the $10 billion deal and deny themselves much needed Soviet gas when the U.S. refuses to revive a grain embargo that would hurt American farmers? Over the past five months, the U.S. has banned the sale of American energy technology to European companies that are supplying equipment for the pipeline. But that policy has caused an uproar in Europe...
...well as an Irish American Roman Catholic monsignor, and the library's magnificent collection of 750,000 volumes is available to the scholars of the world. One of the finest independent libraries in the country, the Boston Athenaeum truly lives up to its entrance plaque: "Here remains a retreat for those who would enjoy the humanity of books...
Carter entitles his lengthy Camp David chapter "Thirteen Days," a name that recalls Robert F. Kennedy '48's identically named and equally breathtaking account of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Day by day, he describes his meetings with Begin and Sadat on the grounds of the presidential retreat: the initial hope, the long period of pessimism, Begin's intransigence, Sadat's frustrated attempt to leave midway through the talks, and the final whirlwind day of settlement...
Tonight's open meeting should shed light on those complex ethical questions. It is also, realistically, students' best chance to influence the Corporation. A similar session last year revealed deep student sentiment against lifting the South Africa bank ban, stopping cold the Corporation's attempt to retreat from...