Word: instructions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arthur Ashe, Cliff Richey and Stan Smith, decided that it had to stand on its own. After a three-hour meeting in London's Westbury Hotel, Drysdale announced: "This is the saddest statement I have ever had to make, but we feel we have no choice but to instruct our members to withdraw." After another meeting-which A.T.P. Executive Director Jack Kramer characterized as "wrestling with our conscience"-the decision was reaffirmed. At week's end, at least 75 of the men players were planning to honor the boycott. Rumania's Hie Nastase...
Both Ehrlichman and Haldeman responded to the second allegation being investigated by the subcommittee - the attempt to use the CIA in the Watergate cover-up - by insisting that that had not been their intention. They readily admitted that they did instruct CIA Deputy Director Vernon Walters to warn Gray that his agency's Watergate investigation might blow the cover of CIA operatives. But they claimed they did so at the specific request of President Nixon, and for legitimate reasons. Picking up the President's national-security theme, Ehrlichman said that "such questions had to be asked and answered...
...addition to its investigation, the Committee must instruct its staff members and alumni recruiters to give first priority in the future to enrolling more well-qualified black applicants. Too often tradition-laced institutions like Harvard slip into an attitude of benign neglect. Such an attitude harms Harvard, not merely by its destruction of the ideal of a heterogeneous University community, but because it reflects a moral failure on the part of the school to actively combat minority oppression in the outside world. For Harvard to accept 10 per cent or fewer blacks in order to reflect the proportion of blacks...
None of his band had received any formal training for combat, Ambihal said. "I instruct the men myself," he explained. "I learned it from the movies." The others guffawed. "It is hard to fight planes though," Ambihal added earnestly. "We are short of many things to fight with, and we will accept help from anyone...
...committee presently sends volunteers to eight Massachusetts correvtional institutions to instruct inmates in math, reading and other subjects relevant to rehabilitation. The black studies courses have been among the most popular with inmates, Rodriguez said...