Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state. These two aspects may overlap but they do not coincide. Neither are they properly considered in conflict." The Evangelicals reaffirmed their opposition to Communism but warned Christians against making it "the church's sole or main enemy." Another resolution called upon the churches not to withdraw from a wicked world, but to "penetrate culture." Christians, the statement urged, should dedicate themselves to applying the Biblical principles which promote "social justice and enduring peace...
...week's end Cairo Radio was spreading word of a cease-fire by mutual agreement in rebellion-torn Yemen. It said that Saudi Arabia was prepared to stop supplying the royalists supporting ex-Imam Badr with money and munitions, while Nasser may withdraw a token contingent of his 28,000-man Egyptian expeditionary force by April 20. Though Nasser's broadcasters are not the most reliable sources in the world, things may well come to this, for without doubt Jordan and Saudi Arabia-and all other Arabs-are becoming increasingly anxious to avoid angering Nasser...
Those Americans are justified in thinking that no amount of American aid could ever help Diem win the war. But to go on from there and suggest that the United States should withdraw all assistance from South Vietnam is a non sequitur equating 12 million people with one man. It is like saying that they must now pay for his mistakes, mistakes which the United States government itself has helped to perpetuate by giving him blind, all-out support...
...indeed the only alternative to President Diem's incompetency is a unified, Communist Vietnam (and according to American intelligence there is no anti-Communist group that the CIA could help to replace Diem), then the U.S. should withdraw as gracefully as possible. Negotiations for free elections to unify the country (which is what Vietamese of all complexions say they ultimately want) might be a good step. The Geneva Treaty which ended the Indo-Chinese War stipulated that such elections be held in 1956; by supporting the treaty now, the U.S. might repair much of the damage of its past violations...
...Rector McDonald vetoed as "imprudent" a proposed C.U. symposium on evolution and Christian theology during the Darwin centennial in 1959-while similar symposiums were held at three other Catholic universities (Fordham, Duquesne, and Chicago's Loyola). ¶ Sociologist Father Raymond Plotvin was forced to withdraw from a major study of family planning in cooperation with Jesuit Georgetown University. Reason: McDonald refused to approve Plotvin's request for a Ford Foundation grant to study "family size preference of American Catholic college girls" because the subject was "too controversial...