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...with the specific wording of U.S. proposals for sharp cutbacks in intermediate-range missiles and their elimination in Europe, a 50% reduction in strategic missiles, a phase-out of underground nuclear testing through a step-by-step process, and a ten-year renunciation of the U.S.'s right to withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty restricting space-based defenses. "We asked them to reconfirm their statements at Reykjavik," said a U.S. participant. "But they wouldn't even do that. We just went round and round...
...what one British participant called a "small disaster." The other countries made it clear that they wanted to play no part in the campaign for sanctions. Six of the twelve E.C. member nations did not even bother to send their foreign ministers. A British proposal that the entire Community withdraw its ambassadors from Damascus for consultations was blocked by France, West Germany, Spain and Greece. Proposals to cut off arms sales to Syria, stiffen visa requirements for Syrian visitors and place restrictions on Syrian embassies and plane flights in Europe were all tabled until an E.C. meeting...
Mitchell and his fellow pranksters programmed the printer in the Science Center to print out, "This computer test sucks" continuously. The prank, for which seven of the eight freshman were originally required to withdraw, interrupted hundreds of freshmen who were waiting to pass the QRR test...
...ground that the works contained references that were contrary to what the parents regarded as God's teaching. The state of Tennessee argued that parents could not pick and choose from the curriculum; if they did, their children could not remain in school. Hull disagreed, ruling that parents could withdraw their children from the reading program but allow them to receive the rest of the school's instruction. Moreover, Hull declared that the parents were entitled to monetary damages, to be determined by a jury trial. Said William Farmer, Tennessee advocate general and a member of the defense team...
...they withdraw from direct ownership of South African businesses, corporate giants like General Motors and IBM are striving to extricate themselves from a moral and economic slough of despond. Yet their actions have been raising questions in both South Africa and industrial nations around the world about just what the pullouts can hope to achieve. Some critics charge that the companies are merely retreating to the ethical high ground while continuing to operate in South Africa through licensing and sales arrangements...