Word: withdrawal
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...returned South Africa to the media spotlight. But the denial of social, political and economic rights to the black majority in South Africa is not new; it has proceeded for decades, and for years leaders of the anti-apartheid organizations in South Africa have called upon foreign multinationals to withdraw their investments as a means of hastening the downfall of the apartheid regime...
...which has observed the 1963 voluntary arms embargo, will extend that policy to cover all previously exempt police and military equipment, including spare parts and maintenance gear. In addition, said Vance, as evidence of "our national concern" over "the regrettable recent steps" taken by South Africa, the U.S. will withdraw the naval attache from its embassy in Pretoria and recall the commercial officer from its consulate in Johannesburg...
...given the required two-year notice of its intention to withdraw but the fact that it actually did so shocked even some Western diplomats. The primary U.S. condition for rejoining is that the I.L.O. get off its political soapbox, but the Administration left specific terms for renewed membership undefined. Labor Secretary F. Ray Marshall said that the U.S. would return "when the I.L.O. is again true to its proper principles"-a statement that the Administration could interpret just about any way it wants...
...Woods faces is irrelevance. "This is the first time something like this has happened in our white community," says his wife. "Perhaps it's good for them to see. I'm watching Donald. 1 don't open up any subject if I see he wants to withdraw. So far he's showing no strain, but we haven't spoken about what's going to come at all, and we won't unless he needs to also If a it good does get thing to go emotional, if through. it But does...
...refused to back it. Now the International Labor Organization, a vestige of the same Treaty of Versailles that set up the League, may die for similar reasons. By the end of this week, the Carter Administration will have to decide whether to keep the U.S. in the I.L.O. or withdraw its heavy support?currently a fourth of the 135-member organization's $80 million annual budget. If the U.S. does withdraw, it would be a severe blow to the Geneva-based I.L.O. and mark the first time that the U.S. has pulled out of any international organization...