Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is no such thing as shareholder responsibility, and given that the University is on record as saying that it abhors apartheid, what should the University do? Divest. Why? First, because black South African leaders have asked corporations to withdraw. The University points to the silence of a few black leaders on this issue as evidence of support for corporate presence in South Africa. This overlooks the fact that South Africa has made it a capital crime publicly to demand corporate withdrawal...
Teddy Kennedy will announce for President and then withdraw. John Jr. and Caroline Kennedy will each take on spouses. A new child ice-skating star will emerge. Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors will split. The N.F.L. will take on a woman referee. Jimmy Carter will decide not to seek reelection...
...Soviet embassy in Guyana of the bequest, but abandoned the suitcase of money in the jungle because it got too heavy. The Guyanese government recovered the cash, and the cult's accounts in Panama were frozen. The Justice Department requested that the banks not allow anyone to withdraw the money. Buford's attorney Mark Lane, who once represented the cult, says he also made such a request. Lane denied reports, however, that while he was in Europe last week he tried to collect some of the money...
Under the agreement, the U.S. would terminate formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, cancel the 1954 mutual defense treaty that committed the U.S. to guarantee Taiwan's military security and withdraw the 700 U.S. troops now on the island. On March 1, the U.S. and Peking would exchange ambassadors. Moreover, said Carter, Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 74, the shrewd and pragmatic chief architect of Peking's remarkable Great Leap Outward to the West, would visit Washington at the end of January for an unprecedented series of summit talks...
...government leaders, including the military governor of Tehran, General Gholam Ali Ovisi, had wanted to stop the demonstrators "mercilessly." But Premier Azhari, who is also the armed forces chief of staff, argued that bloodshed should be avoided at all costs, and the Shah agreed. Accordingly, the government promised to withdraw its forces to north Tehran, leaving the heart of the city free for the demonstrators. In return, the organizers of the demonstration promised to discipline their ranks and pledged that there would be no rioting or burning. Both sides kept their word...