Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...here, anyway?' And I think that if they're gonna get some Republican votes anyway, and if the chairman says he doesn't have anything to do with my motion, then certain representations that were made to me is out the window. So I withdraw my motion...
Delayed Decision. Thus, when the Judiciary Committee met on Tuesday morning last week, Libonati demanded that he be allowed to withdraw his motion. As soon as he did, the trembling bipartisan coalition collapsed. Never firmly convinced that they should turn against the tough subcommittee bill, liberal Democrats and Republicans immediately bolted back to support it. Moreover, the Southern Democrats on the committee were being urged by two foxy old Confederates-Virginia's Representative Howard Smith and Georgia's Senator Richard Russell-to support the stiff bill. Their reasoning: since it had no chance of becoming law, its approval...
...sensible traveler on a road between two dangerous paths, Rocky said: "The American people should not have to choose between an all-powerful Federal Government dominating our lives-the direction in which the Kennedy Administration is moving-nor, on the other hand, a Federal Government committed to withdraw from free world leadership and roll back the clock on social gains and human progress-the direction in which Senator Goldwater has indicated he would move." His road, said Rocky, would be "the forward road...
Dutifully, the rival North African brothers went through the motions of truce talks, but the Moroccans refused Algerian demands to withdraw from the outposts, and after six meetings in Marrakech the negotiations collapsed in anger. As the Algerians stormed home, a new battle reportedly erupted at Ich, 300 miles northeast of the original fighting, and Hassan charged that Ben Bella sought to convert the border struggle into a general war. Back in Algiers, Information Minister M'hammed Yazid blandly declared that a "dialogue is still possible." With that, he boarded a plane for New York, where he will...
...Roland Libonati (D-III.), at the end of 75 minutes of nearly straight talking late in the afternoon, told the students that he would withdraw his amendment to the voting rights section of the House Judiciary Subcommittee's proposed civil rights bill...