Word: withdrawnness
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First, any advertisement similar to the Aramco ad should be withdrawn, no matter what the financial ramifications. You can't have your cake and eat it, too; either The Crimson stands on principle in every case like Aramco or it must abdicate its right to make moral judgements...
...rout of UNITA raised the ominous prospect of a border war between the combined M.P.L.A.-Cuban forces and the South Africans, who have now withdrawn to a 1,000-mile-long strip stretching up to 35 miles deep inside Angola. British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan warned late last week that the world faces the prospect of a "terrible war in southern Africa" unless urgent action is taken to prevent it. The most acute danger, he indicated, would be "hot pursuit" by the Cubans into South West Africa, following a successful firefight with the South African troops in the border area...
...investigation disclosed that Phillips Petroleum Co. went so far as to establish two Swiss corporations into which it channeled a total of $2.8 million. A bit less than half of that was then withdrawn and transferred to a cash fund at the company's Oklahoma headquarters. By the time the Government caught on, $585,000 had been paid out in political contributions in the U.S., most of it in violation of the laws. The other half of the "laundered" Swiss money was spent overseas on payoffs and attorneys' fees for the Swiss corporations...
...anti-Communist religious sect, the Hoa Hao, which still controls much of the Delta. The Communists claim that some 7,000 "enemy troops" have been captured in the past six months. Though the anti-Communist holdouts do not pose a serious threat, the North Vietnamese have not yet withdrawn their estimated 20 divisions (200,000 soldiers) from the South...
Randolph, 60, has quietly withdrawn from an active role in the family publishing empire-although he is still chairman of the Hearst Corp. and president of the San Francisco Examiner-and spends his days consulting with Patty's attorneys. A quiet and thoughtful man, he had been troubled even before the kidnaping by some of the social injustices decried by the S.L.A. He did not complain when the S.L.A. demanded that he dig deeply into his $2 million net worth to distribute food to the poor. But Randolph, too, is said to have grown bitter since her return-bitter...