Word: disbanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...county judge last July ordered demonstrators occupying the hill to disband, and halted construction plans until a hearing could be arranged...
Indeed, last week the executive committee of the Western Regional Drought Action Task Force, a 21-state organization formed to cope with mutual water problems, recommended that the group disband. Only California and Colorado will keep their drought task forces in operation...
...proposals for Rhodesia will work out. But we have taken two very firm views. First, democracy in any country is about the people inside the country determining what sort of government they themselves want. Secondly, we believe that if the Rhodesian security forces were to be disbanded, that could introduce a destabilizing factor. They have in fact maintained security, and we believe they would serve any new government that had properly been elected, obviously with black Rhodesians having their full chance to vote. So it would be most unwise to disband them. Beyond that, I do believe we have...
...outbursts of rudeness and rancor, the Nairobi proceedings made some encouraging progress. Scientists presented many carefully prepared technical analyses of desertification and ways to combat it. The U.S. pitched in with an offer to train a cadre of 1,000 Peace Corps volunteers for antidesertification work. Before the delegates disband this week, they are expected to adopt a 15-point plan that calls for a worldwide effort against the deserts' encroachment with everything from the planting of new vegetation to the settlement of nomads to control grazing...
City officials maintained that it could not afford an ambulance that would meet the standards, which took effect on July 1. They threatened to disband the rescue squad--a 20-member division of the Cambridge Fire Department--if it could not retain...