Word: pulling
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...sanctions, including a House-style ban on all new investment, to be voted on in 18 months if President Reagan judges that the progress toward breaking down apartheid is still inadequate. For another, nothing in prospect seems likely to still the clamor of those advocating a complete U.S. economic pull-out from South Africa. That clamor is apt to grow in the fall as students return to university campuses for a new semester and, probably, new demonstrations...
...arguments for and against a pull-out by U.S. companies from South Africa, often called disinvestment, are more complex. In the view of many advocates, the hope that U.S. investment would spur an economic advance that in turn would undermine apartheid has turned out to be an illusion. "Since the founding of apartheid, there has been tremendous economic growth" in South Africa, says Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman William Gray. "But apartheid is stronger today than it was ten or 15 years...
...Editors: Your issue on immigration [SPECIAL ISSUE, July 8] was superb. It takes courage, initiative and moxie to pull up roots and go to a land where the culture and probably the language are totally foreign. Most immigrants are willing to start at the very bottom and work doubly hard to get to the top. Immigration is America's way of staying young and vital. May it never cease! Michael J. McClary Anaheim, Calif...
...Niagara Falls, Lieut. Commander Robert Michael Gershon, 32, was piloting his Skyhawk through a stunt called the opposing blivot, in which two planes approach head on, then, as they come within 200 ft. of each other, go into steep climbs. At the peak of the stunt, the pilots pull out of a 6,000-ft.-high loop, point their planes downward and crisscross paths at a 45° angle. It was during that precisely timed climax that Gershon's plane and another A-4 collided. The pilot of the other plane ejected and parachuted to safety, but Gershon's plane went...
...heard some people crying for help and rushed across the hall, but it was quicksand," he noted. "In the cellar, the mud reached to within four feet of the ceiling. We started digging . with our hands to take him out but unfortunately were not able to pull out any of the other people who were with...