Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...growing antiwar factions on Capitol Hill began searching for legislative leverage to exert on the President. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has reported Charles Mathias' resolution to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and is bringing it to the Senate floor this week. Oregon's Mark Hatfield and South Dakota's George McGovern are pushing for an amendment that would cut off military authorizations for Cambodia immediately, and for South Viet Nam by the end of 1970. Chances for that measure seem slim. More likely to pass next week is an amendment that would cut off funds for the Cambodian...
...meeting also voted to exert its "influence in education and related areas toward the end of intolerable conditions at home and abroad that have led us to terminate our normal activities as both a matter of conscience and necessity...
...addition to concern over how much control the purchaser, the relatively conservative Los Angeles Times Mirror Co.,* plans to exert over the liberal Long Island daily, the transfer of Guggenheim's 51% raises some intriguing questions. Why did he choose to sell at all? The answer: A conservative, Guggenheim was disappointed by the liberal drift the paper had taken under his hand-picked heir apparent, Publisher Bill Moyers. Ailing at 79, the Captain also wanted to ensure that the six heirs of his late wife would not gain control. Alicia Patterson was the force behind the paper...
...companies that have built up "the worst equal employment record... in America." Harvard and the hundreds of other universities that invest cannot be blamed for liking the steady utility income, but they cannot keep their eyes shut to the sources of the income-and the beneficial pressure they might exert...
African Pressure. The U.S. decision to end diplomatic relations was prompted by Secretary of State William Rogers' recent African tour. During the trip, the leaders of at least six Black African nations objected to continued U.S. relations with a country in which 234,000 whites exert total control over roughly 5,000,000 blacks. Britain, which withdrew its diplomatic representation last year, had also urged the U.S. to pull out, and a United Nations Security Council resolution, passed in 1965, called for diplomatic isolation of Rhodesia...