Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never been climbed. Part of the St. Elias Range, it was called East Hubbard* until the Canadian government renamed it in honor of the late President. Both Teddy and Bobby agreed to join the expedition, but then Teddy suffered a broken back in an airplane crash and had to withdraw...
After the Crimson seven suffered a 29-1 humiliation at the hands of Yale five years ago, alumni pressured to withdraw financial support from the team; they haven't won a game since...
Shortly after these meetings Stillman, representing the "Boston Committee to End U.S. Support of Apartheid," wrote to the companies urging them to withdraw support from the South African economy. In addition he told them that his group planned to picket the two firms on March...
...diplomatic response was more measured. One by one Arab envoys in Bonn packed their bags to come home, following an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo that had reached only limited agreement on a proposal to break diplomatic ties with West Germany. Ten Arab nations agreed to withdraw ambassadors from Bonn, but Morocco, Tunisia and Libya (which annually sells Bonn 35% of its oil output, or $245 million worth) refused to go even that far. Most of the foreign ministers were frankly appalled at Nasser's call for recognition of East Germany and an economic boycott of West...
...idealism explains the fact that he is about to withdraw his account from the Chase Manhattan Bank, on the basis of recent protests against the Bank's connection with business activity and apartheid in South Africa. "It's convenient to bank there, but wrong...