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...could have won the relay," he said, referring to the four-by four hundred men's relay from which Yale withdrew two runners at the last minute. "But it was a good battle," Haggerty said...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s search for a new executive director was a bureaucratic nightmare, complete with name calling and last-minute power plays. The culmination came when the Rev. Jesse Jackson, best known among four final candidates for the post, withdrew his name from consideration. The final selection, made Friday, was almost anticlimactic: the Rev. Benjamin Chavis, an official with the United Church of Christ and a civil rights activist. Relatively speaking, getting the job was the easy part. Chavis' true challenge will be to restore the N.A.A.C.P. to its former glory...
Former mayor Alfred E. Velluccr said that somebody has to replace Barrett on the senate. "Alice Wolf withdrew from the city council race. Maybe she is a candidate to the senate," he said...
...could "plunge the people into the abyss of confrontation." Whether Khasbulatov was responding to that or had just counted heads and found he could not muster the two-thirds vote necessary, he too stepped back. Conceding that he may have overreacted to Yeltsin's "special rule" speech, he withdrew his demand for impeachment. "Frankly," he said, "I am not a supporter of impeachment...
South Korea offered to repatriate Li In Mo in a peace gesture made the day before North Korea withdrew from the nuclear control pact. Seoul's willingness to go ahead with the meeting suggested it was anxious to maintain a dialogue with the North despite the pullout...