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...student Third World Center Organization, which last spring presented the first proposal for an institution to serve primarily minorities, has withdrawn support from the Foundation designed to improve race relations at Harvard...
Afghanistan. He gave no indication that Soviet troops would be withdrawn anytime soon. But he denied any Soviet designs on the Persian Gulf and proposed that the "military threat" to the region be removed by international agreement. U.S. policymakers were unimpressed. "It's a stale reiteration of their desire to get a finger in the Persian Gulf pie," said an intelligence analyst in Washington...
...branch that accepts a deposit into one of its accounts from another branch fills out a transfer ticket. The credit page is deposited in the local branch, creating an electronic balance that can be withdrawn by the account's owner, while the debit page is sent to the other branch to signal it to draw down its own balance correspondingly...
...military, economic, and diplomatic support should be withdrawn from South Africa, Mary Anderson, director of Radcliffe's Bunting Institute, said. She added that the U.S. should vote against South African intervention in Namibia in an upcoming United Nations resolution...
Though Gifford works it all into a tense, private nightmare using a narration derived in part from Hemingway, the reader never feels that his fixed state and slightly withdrawn I've-been-through-hell voice are chic affectations adopted to suit the role of Tough Young American Novelist. He avoids the stylized macho disillusionment that characterizes much Hemingway imitation--and for that matter, much of Hemingway. His voice, with its tightlipped, overwrought intensity, is a voice terse enough for the end of the world. He and his characters, uptight and dream-ridden, have stared into the intolerable darkness...