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Three times since 1972, Ohira has had a chance to drive for the party leadership, but on each occasion the reluctant bull backed away. The last time, in 1975, he and Fukuda, his opponent, reportedly made an oral agreement that Ohira would withdraw and support Fukuda and that Fukuda in turn would step aside as Premier and party leader at the end of his term, in Ohira's favor. Fukuda apparently reneged on the deal, and that may be what finally moved Ohira to put up a real fight for the leadership...
...incident came one year to the exact day and hour after a raid which resulted in the arrest of seven undergraduates. After last year's arrests five students were forced to withdraw and others received a maximum of one and a half years of probation...
...petition that will go to the Harvard Corporation says that because of Harvard's "prestige and influence" its divestiture "would contribute significantly to the mounting pressure on U.S. corporations to withdraw, thus helping to expedite the end of apartheid and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa...
Joseph Gozzo, president of the Bloomfield (Conn.) State Bank, was uneasy. On Nov. 8, a new customer named Arbie Evans had phoned to say that he wanted to withdraw $33,500 in cash from an account he had opened only three weeks earlier. Suspecting a swindle of some kind, Gozzo summoned the police. When Evans arrived at the bank, the cops asked him to come to the station. After four hours of fruitless questioning, they placed a poster from the FBI'S most-wanted list before him. With scarcely a wince, he admitted: "All right...
...number of major U.S. journalists' and publishers' associations have hotly denounced the declaration. Some have also urged that the U.S., which pays 25% of UNESCO's budget ($303 million this year), withdraw from the body if the declaration is adopted. In a letter to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, New York's Senator Daniel Moynihan last month called on the U.S. to "thunder our contempt for this contemptible document." In Paris, the 38-member U.S. delegation has been lobbying quietly to water down the declaration. But the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times last week editorialized against compromise...