Word: withdrawnness
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...Supreme Court, Tran Van Linh, Thieu noted that Ky had refused to run and demanded a ruling on whether there was now one candidate or two. Seven of the nine Justices (two were abroad) met informally in Saigon, and agreed six to one that Ky had in effect withdrawn. Since the law had not provided for a one-man race, Chief Justice Linh gave as his "consultative opinion" that it was up to Thieu to decide on procedures. Thieu took that as authority enough to rule Ky's name off the ballot...
...when his well-to-do father's finances collapsed. About the same time, Henrik became convinced (incorrectly, his biographer suspects) that he was illegitimate. He writhed under this double disgrace, and when he left home at 15 it was forever-he saw his parents only once after that. Withdrawn and stumpy, he was apprenticed for six years to an apothecary. By day he brewed prescriptions over a kitchen stove; by night he wrote radical poems and skits that read like bad Kipling. At 23, indirectly because of a stormy verse drama he had written, he was offered the post...
...Concessions. On the main issues between China and the U.S., Chou was unyielding. He insisted that U.S. troops be withdrawn not only from Viet Nam and Taiwan, but from Japan, Thailand and the Philippines as well. ("This doesn't seem to me to be a realistic basis that any President could accept," Reston observed.) China would not mediate in Viet Nam, continued Chou, nor would it accept anything less than expulsion of Taiwan from the U.N. before "we go in." He professed to be perplexed over seeming differences in the Nixon pledge to seek U.N. entry for Peking...
Seventh Fleet patrols have been withdrawn from the Taiwan Strait, and there are almost no combat troops among the 8,900-man U.S. military force on the island. The overwhelming majority of the uniformed Americans on the island are service and supply personnel providing back-up for troops in Viet Nam, and it is generally assumed that they will be withdrawn as the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia winds down...
...noted that the Second Vatican Council had found "new and richer dimensions" to replace the rigid church conceived by the Council of Trent-the 16th century ecclesiastical assembly that shored up Catholic walls against the Protestant Reformation. He described "the church in which we grew up" as almost completely withdrawn from the world. "It was a church in which discipline and order and conformity to the minutest rubric were paramount values, a church increasingly irrelevant and unintelligible to men." In Detroit, he said, he lost all hope for change: "Discussion is impossible...