Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon street and, drenched in five gallons of gasoline, calmly set himself afire with a cigarette lighter to dramatize Buddhist opposition to the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. It was this calculated grisly act of propaganda?and Diem's harsh countermeasures?that eventually led the U.S. to withdraw support from Diem, permitting his overthrow and murder. At the time, the West had great sympathy for South Viet Nam's Buddhists. Now the atmosphere is different. There is no longer even the shadow of a religious issue. Around the charred object that is still exhibited and venerated as Quang...
Today's SACB hearings in Boston are nothing more than an embarrassing reminder of McCarthyism. The attorney-general should recognize this and withdraw all the petitions which he now has before the SACB, thus ending the board's activities (which, incidently, now cost roughly $400,000 per year). And the Congress could do even more towards destroying the vestiges of a disgraceful era (and preventing its recurrence) by repealing the Internal Security...
...just as resolutely in defense of the pound as they had to follow Brit ain's rate rise. Said Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa: "It's like a run on a bank: if you roll the money truck in the door, the depositors who planned to withdraw will go away." The rescue that followed was the most dar ing ever tried...
Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, said last night the United States should negotiate an agreement with the Viet Cong and withdraw all U.S. troops from Vietnam as soon as possible...
...University Committee on Discrimination in Fraternities ordered in 1962 that local fraternities either eliminate the discriminatory clause from their national charters within a "reasonable time" or withdraw from the national organizations. The Brown chapter of Sigma Nu, whose national charter contains discriminatory provisions, became independent voluntarily last week. Phi Delta Theta will follow suit in December...