Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Student dissatisfaction with Harvard's investments re-emerged in the fall of 1977 when members of the SASC called on Harvard to divest of its holdings in banks loaning to the South African government and to urge corporations to withdraw from that country through shareholder resolutions...
When he asked for Begin's approval of this, Strauss said that he "met with negative results." In fact, the Israelis hinted darkly that rather than be pressured by the U.S. to back such a motion they would withdraw from the autonomy talks. From the five sessions held so far, it has become evident that the West Bank and Gaza leaders will not join the process without the approval of the P.L.O. But Begin's threat to withdraw from the talks was almost completely unexpected...
...Israelis want no part of a new resolution that might also acknowledge the Palestinians' right to a sovereign state. The threat may have been precipitated in part by Israel's domestic political uncertainties, but there was no mistaking its seriousness: to withdraw from the stalled negotiations for "autonomy" of the occupied West Bank and Gaza if the U.S. presses too hard for a rapprochement with the P.L.O. that set off the Israelis this time seemed to be an intricate power play orchestrated by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the P.L.O. The shape of this three-pronged diplomatic maneuver launched...
...Some who managed to get hold of a script protested that Cruising would be an insulting film because it depicts homosexuals as violent and sex-obsessed. Marshaling forces along the fringes of the street scenes and staging protest marches through the Village, the gays demanded that Mayor Edward Koch withdraw municipal assistance for the production...
Vazquez said a woman administrator, whose name he could not recall, told him that not turning in his study card would allow him to withdraw, despite an explicit statement in the Summer School catalogue warning that "merely ceasing to attend classes does not constitute withdrawal...