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...long overdue step in U.S. foreign policy. Kennedy's statement came in response to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50's earlier announcement that the U.S. was planning to ask the Organization of American States to lift the 14-year embargo on trade with Cuba, an action tantamount in itself to ending the embargo...
...referendum on the issue after spring break, but why wait till then? Could not a referendum be held during the of February 3, before meatless days are instituted? What harm could come of a referendum held before the policy is effected? Holding a referendum after the fact is tantamount to a dictatorship for the months prior to that vote. Since CHUL obviously agrees that the matter merits, some sort of referendum, there can be no other explanation for its action than that it hopes undergraduates will be hulled into a state of complacency during the experimental period; when the vote...
...least as significant was a hint from Egypt's Sadat that eventually he might not insist on simultaneous Israeli disengagement moves on all three disputed fronts. "It would be tantamount to treason," he told the Beirut newspaper an-Nahar, "if we reject for any reason occupied Arab land that the enemy may return to us." Jordan's King Hussein made the same point to TIME. "My own view," the King said, "is that any territory recovered is important. If it is a step to be followed by others, I do not see why there should by any objection...
John Holt, author of numerous books on children's education, says that "a pseudodiagnostic" psychiatric language has seeped into teacher comments in students' records. "Many people read these comments as tantamount to a psychiatrist saying you're nuts," he says, "and it stays in your record...
...Commitment. During his testimony, Rockefeller found himself asked to judge the actions of both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He declared that Nixon's acceptance of his pardon was "tantamount to admitting guilt." While he called the pardon "an act of conscience, compassion and courage," Rockefeller said that his "total inclination" was not to grant a similar pardon if he should ever have to sit in judgment on Jerry Ford. Yet Rockefeller refused to say that he would never grant a pardon under any circumstances...