Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most districts. This year, however, Communist Chief Georges Marchais has threatened to upset the usual pattern. In his feud with Socialist François Mitterrand, he has warned that if his Communists do not gain at least 21% of the vote in the first round, he may not withdraw his candidates in districts where Socialists run ahead. In many areas this would result in three-way races - Communists v. Socialists v. center-right candidates - a situation that would give the non-leftists an overwhelming advantage. According to one poll, if the Communists do withdraw in favor of Socialist front runners...
...that the decision, if and when it finally occurs, will be too little. It is already too late. Many campus groups, most notably the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, have called on the University to sponsor shareholder resolutions for companies in the portfolio that operate in South Africa to withdraw from that country. The deadlines for this year for sponsoring such resolutions in many companies have already passed or will soon pass--usually a shareholder must initiate a resolution 90 days before the annual company meeting in April or May--and by not reaching a decision in time Harvard has implicitly...
...House. He also performs special tasks for the President. For example, Lance, among others, was given the job of phoning key businessmen to tell them-before the news was announced-that Carter had decided to nominate William Miller as Federal Reserve Board chairman. When the State Department tried to withdraw Lance's diplomatic passport after he left office, the White House intervened to let him keep it, because, some Carter aides insisted, the President might send Lance on foreign missions in the future...
...shut-down has caused all academic deadlines for the beginning of the semester to be moved back. Applications for House transfers are due Monday at 4 p.m., study cards next Friday, and applications to drop courses and withdraw from courses will be due March 13 and March 27, respectively, Dean Fox said...
...covert CIA operations can ?or should?be ruled out. "There is a mean, dirty, back-alley struggle going on in which many other governments are participating," says former Secretary of State Dean Rusk. "If we withdraw unilaterally, they aren't going to stop. We must maintain a first-rate covert capability...