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...before you prop up the Shriver case as a precedent to a Jackson nomination, there are some facts to consider. Shriver received the nod from McGovern only after his initial running mate, Senator Thomas Eagleton, had been forced to withdraw his name. Reporters had discovered that Eagleton had received shock treatments for emotional disorders...
...This is the first time in the history of the Soviet Union that they have moved by aggression into another country and then had to withdraw," Shultz said later at a White House press briefing...
...some waved the banned Palestine Liberation Organization flag, thousands of Israeli Arabs staged nonviolent Land Day demonstrations in sympathy with the Palestinians under occupation. The restrictions were lifted on Good Friday, but Israeli leaders did not withdraw their threats to quell the rioters. Declared Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We say to them, from this hilltop and from the perspective of thousands of years of history, that in our eyes they are like grasshoppers...
...Biden, the Delaware senator who was forced to withdraw from the presidential race this year after being caught borrowing speeches, is already looking ahead to the 1992 race. Gary Hart can't be far behind...
...resolution minus the neutrality clause is"no help to the union at all. That's an insult tothem," said cosponsor Robert H. Greenstein '89,who said he would like the bill to return tocommittee. "You might as well withdraw it--it'smeaningless...