Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Were Collins' candidacy a known fact, other candidates might withdraw and enter the camps of stronger, more widely known anti-Collins candidates. But most of the lesser lights, frustrated by long, powerless years in the Council or the General Court, are unwilling to let what seems to be a golden opportunity...
Belatedly, the Germans are discovering that the U.S. is at least as much a Pacific as it is an Atlantic power?and that realization has led to fears that Americans would withdraw their troops or permit Germany to become an initial atomic battlefield in any war. The abandonment of the multilateral force and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's insistence that Germany buy huge amounts of military equipment from the U.S.?an insistence that helped to bring down the Erhard government?are galling. "We have bought so much U.S. military equipment," says one German official in Washington, "that...
...sense enough. To ease the tribal tensions that threaten to tear the country apart, he proposed dividing Nigeria's four regions into "no fewer than eight and no more than 14" separate states within a federation. Gowon also extended his ban on all civilian political activity, refused to withdraw Northern army units from the suspicious East and West, and made his only obeisance to Eastern feelings by promising a federal "rehabilitation program" to aid the 40,000 merchants and bureaucrats of the Eastern Ibo tribe who were driven out of the North by last fall's terrorism. Pleaded...
...Egan, 52, Alaska's only elected Governor in eight years of statehood, formally acknowledged his defeat by Republican Walter J. Hickel, 47, a hotel and construction millionaire who landed in Anchorage in 1940 with 37? in his pocket. Egan originally conceded the day after the election, only to withdraw his concession when Hickel's lead narrowed. Last week's official canvass put the vote at 33,145 for Hickel, 32,065 for Egan and 1,085 for an independent. The outcome confirmed the number of governorships won by the G.O.P. so far (excluding Georgia...
...government of France, which owns 15% of MEA, covets the rest, and doesn't like pro-American Bedas in any case, blocked an Intra bid to build a seriously needed new European headquarters in Paris. Next Russia, always glad to oblige in such matters, had its Narodny Bank withdraw the $5,000,000 it had deposited with Intra. Narodny staffers then spread the rumor that Intra was sick...