Word: withdrawals
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...face of the growing international outcry over South Africa's practices, the Botha government is also trying to present a conciliatory foreign policy. First, it announced last week that it would comply with a 14-month-old, U.S.-brokered agreement and withdraw its troops from Angola. Then, appearing before Parliament, Botha agreed to allow neighboring Namibia's internal political organizations, both black and white, to form an interim administration with a bill of rights and a constitutional court and council. Though not amounting to full self-government, that generous-seeming offer aroused fears in the West that South Africa, which...
...over these investments has pitted liberals against liberals, conservatives against conservatives and even South African blacks against South African blacks. At issue are two different forms of divestiture: forcing colleges and public bodies to sell their stock in companies that operate in South Africa, and forcing such companies to withdraw their investments from that country. The two ideas are allied but not quite the same, and different arguments apply to each...
...days after the University announced it would withdraw its investment from PetroChina, the Beijing-based oil company with ties to the Sudanese government, a major student group that sought to bring about the divestment is disbanding...
...people's lives is the small stuff-a mature female goat, a loan of $50, money for school fees, a small community-built dam to trap water for the dry season. The world needs to stop initiating and supporting wars and instead open borders to free trade. We should withdraw support from dictators so that democracy can work. Let's spend our time, energy and resources on making friends and addressing the alienation that encourages terrorism to thrive. Let's stop taking away from others so that they don't have enough while we have too much. Dave Klassen Kitchener...
...feeding tube is cruel. "Being starved and dehydrated is not a death with dignity," says Tara Flood, spokesperson for Britain's Disability Awareness in Action. Others would welcome more American-style pro-life passion. Italy's Minister for European Affairs, Rocco Buttiglione, who last year was forced to withdraw his candidacy as the European Union's Commissioner for Justice after making controversial remarks on homosexuality and the role of women, applauds American politicians' intervention in the Schiavo case. "It's moving to see a great participation of the American people and great movement for life," Buttiglione told Time. "It will...