Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communists could prevent Chiang Kai-snek's defeat they were booted out of office as traitors When during the Cuban missile crisis Adlai Stevenson suggested that the United States remove from Turkey its obsolete missiles (which the President had already slated for the dustbin) so that the Russians could withdraw from Cuba and save a little face, the other government officials jumped on him and the proposal never received serious consideration. When the Vietcong attacked the American barracks at Pleiku in February. 1965, Hubert Humphrey opposed retaliators bombing against North Vietnam for the next several months he was shut...
...late October he would meet with Crimson reporters if a third party was present, but when a recently resigned Coop director, Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for Administration, agreed to be a witness, the president became "too busy." In a similar reversal. Coop general manager Howard W. Davis withdraw his agreement to field the questions if they were asked in the process of a current student director...
Where Thieu has refused to budge, at least so far, is on the issue of the North Vietnamese troops in the South. The U.S. and Hanoi have already agreed in principle on a partial withdrawal. But Saigon continues to insist on a public assurance by Hanoi that it will withdraw all of its troops-reckoned at 100,000 to 145,000 by U.S. intelligence and at 300,000 by Thieu. The North Vietnamese are not going to agree to such a condition...
...went on to say that her major tasks for the future would be to help our students develop a strong sense of their own worth gain confidence in themselves as they master academic and social skills, and ultimately counteract the tendency to withdraw from the mainstream of thought and achievement in our society...
...named as one of her major tasks for the future the need "to counternet the tendency (of students) to withdraw from the mainstream of thought and achievement in our society...