Word: withdrawn
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...concern about a number of the selections -- Seymour Hersh's The Price of Power, Jonathan Kwitny's Endless Enemies and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth -- saying that they reflected the views "of only one segment of the American political spectrum." He asked not that they be withdrawn but that others from a conservative perspective be included...
...Harvard; 6 Radcliffe undergraduates, 4 GSAS students 1 acquitted, 1 admonished, 5 warned, 11 required to withdraw, 5 suspended requirement to with draw, 2 separated Dec. 5 & 11, 1969 Occupations of University Hall Jan. 22, 1970 40 complaints--35 Harvard, 9 Radcliffe undergraduates, 2 GSAS students 2 complaints withdrawn, 6 complaints dismissed, 20 warned, 9 suspended requirement to withdraw April 9, 1970 Disruption at CFIA May 20, 1971 20 complaints 1 complaint withdrawn, 3 admonished, 2 warned, 11 suspended requirement to withdraw, 1 required to withdraw, 1 separated May 11, 1970 Obstructive Picketing at University Hall June...
...greatest play, The Glass Menagerie, Williams portrayed his mother, clinging to outworn social "standards" to validate her life, and his withdrawn sister Rose, her madness and eventual lobotomy transmuted onstage into shyness and a limp. His own surrogate alternated between cries of self- justification and outpourings of guilt. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams depicted the brute half of himself, Stanley Kowalski, destroying the fragile, distracted half, Blanche DuBois...
...become conventional wisdom that only a stern anti-Communist such as Richard Nixon could have opened relations with China. It may also be that only a Nixon could have withdrawn U.S. forces from a conflict with a Soviet proxy and accepted a cease-fire that left thousands of Communist insurgents far beyond their legal borders, in place for an eventual onslaught. By the time the 1973 Paris accords were signed, any prudent politician might have had enough doubts about South Viet Nam's survival to start shifting blame to others for having "lost" an ally. Hawks like Nixon assailed doves...
...answer must begin with cases. Consider Uganda under Idi Amin. Amin was the legitimate ruler when Tanzania invaded and overthrew him. The Tanzanians might say that this was in response to Ugandan border incursions, but Amin had ordered his troops withdrawn more than a month before Tanzania's action. In any case, if repelling a trespass at the border was the problem, Tanzania should have stopped there. It hardly had to drive to Kampala and install the leader of its choice. Tanzania's action, ridding the world of Amin, was a violation of Ugandan sovereignty. It is hard...