Word: withdrawnness
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University officials claimed yesterday that the labor union representing Harvard's dining hall workers has withdrawn a controversial race and sex discrimination-based grievance filed in May. Union, officials, however, yesterday repeatedly denied that the complaint had been withdrawn...
...first of a series of contradictory statements made by both sides yesterday a Harvard official said that he was informed by the union that its complaint over the firing of a Black Adams, House dining hall worker had been withdrawn...
...maneuvering over the Jordanian proposal, following King Hussein's visit to Washington, coincided with the third anniversary of Israel's invasion of , Lebanon and, at least theoretically, with the end of that ill-fated adventure. The last Israeli units were expected to be withdrawn by the end of last week, although Jerusalem left around 100 soldiers in a "security zone" north of the Israel-Lebanon frontier. That prompted an outcry from Lebanese Shi'ites, who threaten continued warfare until the last Israeli soldier leaves Lebanon...
Embarrassment piled on embarrassment for the South African government last week after the ambush of a nine-man commando unit by Angolan troops. Reason: South Africa was supposed to have withdrawn the last of its soldiers from Angola in April under a U.S.-mediated accord. General Constand Viljoen, head of South Africa's Defense Forces, admitted that the country still had military units in Angola on "reconnaissance and information-gathering" missions against rebel groups like the African National Congress (ANC), which is known to have bases there. But the captured leader of the commando squad, Captain Wynand Petrus du Toit...
...quickly seized on last week by Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, who has 30,000 of his troops stationed in Angola. He lambasted U.S.-sponsored peace efforts in southern Africa and charged that the U.S. had known all along that South Africa was lying when it claimed to have withdrawn its forces from Angola. The Angolans had been considering a phased withdrawal of Cuban forces in return for the South African pullout, but last week, according to South African sources, the Luanda government intended to break off negotiations with Pretoria...