Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leader Everett Dirksen, who favors Fortas and opposes the filibuster, despairs of the outcome. He estimates that 50 Senators will vote against shutting off debate, leaving far fewer than the two-thirds needed for cloture. After two failures on a cloture vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield is likely to withdraw the nomination, and the court will open its new session next month with Warren back on the bench...
Keeping Cool. Shaken, he returned to his suite. In one final gesture, which even he probably knew would be useless, he sought to end the violence, telephoning his campaign manager at the International Amphitheatre to tell him to withdraw the name of Eugene McCarthy from the balloting. "It looked," he remarked later, "like the convention might break up in chaos. I thought this might stabilize it." By then it was too late. The balloting in the convention hall had already started, and the count-and the violence below-went...
...shown. Many of them wore red, white and blue corsages and carried IVAN GO HOME! placards. Thev burned propaganda leaflets dropped from Soviet helicopters. Hundreds of thousands of citizens in fac tories, sports clubs and professional associations signed petitions calling upon Svoboda to declare Czechoslovakia neu tral and withdraw from the Warsaw Pact. Radio Prague began broadcasting the license-plate numbers of secret police cars so that people could slash their tires...
...Manila government to get hold of the territory. Acting for the Sultan's heirs, who live in the Philippines, the Manila government claims that the original agreement merely leased Sabah to the British instead of ceding it. Last month, talks in Bangkok broke down, and Manila threatened to withdraw its ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, a rupture that could have scuttled ASEAN as a promising vessel for Southeast Asian cooperation...
That does not seem likely, since ASEAN has grown in importance over the last year for all five of its member nations. Both the British decision to withdraw its forces east of Suez and the Paris peace talks have sharply altered Asian horizons. "Ultimately," as Ramos put it, "we have got to rely on our own resources and energies to protect our lives and our fortunes." ASEAN clearly could evolve into one means to that common...