Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...September, 1966, Boston University was urged by its student newspaper, the B.U. News, to withdraw academic credit and other forms of official recognition from ROTC courses. The paper's first edition of the semester included an anti-ROTC petition signed by 44 faculty members, and editorial charges that ROTC courses were "propaganda issues by a military hierarchy beyond the university's control...
...about a year ago. Students there protested a gift to Brandeis by the Raab family owner of the Stop and Shop supermarket chain. They alleged that the Raab Foundation received funds from the CIA and that Stop and Shop charged higher prices inghetto areas. The Raab family did not withdraw its gift...
...postpone a final decision for as long as possible, despite daily Mexican and Communist demands for an immediate IOC decision. Brundage hopes the blustering will die away in time for the Olympics, but Frank Braun, president of the South African Committee, has said South Africa "will under no circumstances withdraw from the Games." And the protesting Africans regard this as an important demonstration of their immature political muscle...
...Millionaire Gordon McLendon announced that "as partial payment for all the good things that have come my way in life," he would run for the Governor's office being vacated this year by John Connally. Abruptly last week the maverick Democrat appeared on 26 Texas television stations to withdraw his largesse. McLendon has decided that "our nation is without leadership, and you and I are going broke." Therefore he disdains to lead Lyndon Johnson's state out of the morass. He did, however, offer the President some advice. The U.S., he said, must abandon all of its commitments...
...keep your appointments. Furthermore, since patients are very sensitive to their own feelings--not so much to yours--they do not necessarily respond to your wishes but they do sense immediately whether you are telling the truth and whether you are afraid. If they feel this, they immediately withdraw...