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...temporarily withdrew this proposal because when one of the members of the Administrative Committe suggested that the issue be taken up with the Committe on Investment Responsibility before being presented to the full Council, it seemed like a logical reason for waiting to officially submit it. The proposal is in no way "short-lived", as Nolan's article implied; it has merely been temporarily postponed. Lynn A. Marchetti '87 Undergraduate Council
...example. The Contadora agreement drawn up between Panama, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela represented a Latin American solution to ongoing crises in Central America. Among the proposed conditions was the withdrawal of foreign military advisers from Nicaragua. Yet as soon as Nicaragua agreed to sign the agreement, the U.S. withdrew its support. "The United States does not allow us to be what it allows itself to be," says Fuentes. "They do not allow us the self-determination, the political and diplomatic capacity which they give themselves...
Still, when Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini, 60, leader of the small but pivotal Republican Party, abruptly withdrew from the government with two other Republican ministers on Oct. 16, Craxi's government seemed doomed to collapse. Spadolini was angered by the Prime Minister's decision to release Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, the Palestinian Liberation Front leader who Washington believes planned to use the Achille Lauro to launch an attack on Israel. Furious at having been excluded from any prior consultation in that decision, Spadolini was also protesting what he considered the pro-Arab tilt in Rome's Middle East policy...
Eventually, the ad board withdrew the request that students who requested similar punishments detail their participation at the event. However, the board's actions simply have not reflected the sort of respect for individual rights that law schools are expected to teach. Rather, they were obviously intended to intimidate students and discourage them from taking part in political demonstrations...
...charge of ground operations and tactical air support in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In January of 1982, he brought a libel suit against CBS for what he claimed was a misrepresentative portrayal of him in a "60 Minutes" segment on the Vietnam War. Earlier this year, Westmoreland withdrew the suit...