Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) on Monday rejected requests from 16 representatives of labor unions, liberal and women's groups that he withdraw his support of a bill that would reform the federal criminal code...
Kennedy said he will not withdraw his support for the bill as "no new views were presented to him at Monday's meeting," a spokesman for Kennedy said yesterday...
...accused Daddah of corruption, but a more likely reason for the coup was Mauritania's woeful record in the drawn-out guerrilla war it is fighting, alongside Morocco, in the former Spanish Sahara. The two countries moved into the phosphate-rich colony in 1975, when Spain agreed to withdraw its troops. Despite military help from Morocco and France, Mauritania has been battered by the 5,000 members of the Marxistoriented, Algerian-backed, Polisario guerrilla movement, which demands independence for the region...
...sides worked out a compromise. By 1983 Britain will withdraw what has become an anachronistic and embarrassing colonial presence in the steamy 2,226-sq.-mi. sultanate of 190,000 people on the north coast of Borneo (see map). Meanwhile, British civil servants will continue to handle much of the sultanate's affairs, as they have since 1888, when the tiny backwater country, which a passing naval captain had chanced on 40 years earlier, formally became a British protectorate. In addition, London agreed to keep a battalion of tough Gurkha soldiers in Brunei (pronounced Brew-nigh) until the sultanate...
...Last day to withdraw (no adjustment of fees...