Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caught in a trap, Aspinall backed down. "It amounts to blackmail," he grumbled, as he allowed that if Hayden would withdraw his rider and stick with the Central Arizona Project bill as passed by the Senate, Aspinall's committee would take it up first thing next session. "This is all I ever wanted," responded Hayden with a grin...
...first actions the 1967 HPC performed was to withdraw a fifth course pass-fail plan that the 1966 HPC had spent several months preparing...
Allard K. Lowenstein, the New York liberal leading the National Conference of Concerned Democrats, will call for the creation of a Harvard Concerned Democrats group at the meeting. Lowenstein's group hopes to force Johnson to withdraw from contention for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination...
...loose association to which most of the nation's Buddhist sects belong. It is a position of influence that Tri Quang coveted for himself and the militants, and he told Thieu that Tarn Chau had "betrayed" the church by siding with the government. If Thieu did not withdraw Tarn Chau's primacy, Tri Quang warned, the government might as well "prepare the sandbags" for war in the streets with his bonzes...
...Police armed with burp guns and long metal rods. The policemen question and search the villagers, poke the ground with their rods in search of holes hiding Viet Cong or arms. They usually flush out both, and load them into the Chinook. With that, the police and the Cavalrymen withdraw. Usually within two hours the village is alone and tranquil again-minus its Viet Cong...