Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some at the Pentagon urged swift retaliation, White House officials were apparently concerned that a U.S. military counterstrike would trigger new congressional demands that the Administration invoke the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which would require Reagan to notify Congress that U.S. military forces were in a hostile situation, then withdraw the troops after 60 days unless the House and Senate approved their remaining. Senate critics of Reagan's gulf policy promised they would redouble their efforts to force the Administration to invoke the act if the Sea Isle City attack was avenged...
Emerson College is back to square one in its search for land for a new campus after legal roadblocks persuaded it to withdraw from a long-anticipated deal with the city of Lawrence last month...
Roby noted that five of the six people involved in the incident were required to withdraw for a year...
Harvard basketball coach Peter Roby, one of only three Black head coaches in the Ivy League, said he agrees with the Administrative Board's decision to require Patterson to withdraw for a year and to grant Williams the right to play even though he is on disciplinary probation...
Bork is resigned to the near impossibility of his confirmation. His refusal to withdraw was a protest against the efforts to depict him as a right-wing ideologue. More important, he saw the quixotic effort as a way to defy the politicization of the confirmation process. "For the sake of the federal judiciary and the American people," declared Bork last week, "that must not happen...