Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawyer's?is to get the case thrown out on some legal technicality, and he often succeeds. In a San Francisco police squad room, the cops toss darts at an unusual board. Its rings are labeled: Investigate further, Admonish, Cite, and the bull's-eye is Complaint withdrawn. Police Lieut. George Rosko sums up the whole juvenile process: "It fosters the kid's belief that he can beat the system. He goes through the court, comes back to the neighborhood, and he's a hero...
...executive director of the National Gay Task Force, concedes that there has been a "flurry of firings" of homosexuals in Dade County and that at least one state legislature -Oklahoma's-has passed a resolution endorsing Bryant's position. But in Illinois a similar motion was withdrawn after being sarcastically attacked by a number of legislators. Said Representative Harold D. Byers: "Next we'll be passing a resolution congratulating the Nazis who want to march through Skokie [a Chicago suburb]." In Massachusetts the first state law prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals is expected to pass the house after...
...troop withdrawal is a reaffirmation of the so-called Nixon Doctrine, by which the U.S. promises continued support of its allies but expects them to do their own fighting on the ground. In keeping with this principle, the U.S. 7th Division was withdrawn from South Korea in 1970-71. By ordering the 2nd Division home, Carter probably feels he has reduced the risk that the U.S. will suddenly find itself embroiled in another Asian land war-a political disaster for any President...
Whether or not all U.S. investments in South Africa should be withdrawn may be a debatable question. A few American corporations have aggressively challenged apartheid regulations, and perhaps a case can be made that they constitute a progressive force in South Africa...
...York Republican Jacob Javits and Idaho Democrat Frank Church introduced another, restating U.S. pledges to maintain Israel's military strength. The White House, worried by the possibility of a rash of similar resolutions in behalf of other nations, hastily sought a compromise. The Humphrey-Case measure was withdrawn, the Javits-Church toned down. Carter in return stoutly declared at a White House press conference that Israel was entitled to arms because of its "special relation" with the U.S., which, he added, would continue as long as he was President...