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...chanted, "Murderer! Nazi! Fascist, go home!" (The "Nazi" vocabulary is promiscuously adaptable.) Smith College invited Kirkpatrick to be its commencement speaker this spring, and prepared to award her an honorary degree. The school then decided it could not guarantee decorum if Kirkpatrick came to speak, and so she withdrew...
...University of Pennsylvania withdrew recognition of the Alpha Tan Omega (ATO) fraternity there last week following an investigation of charges that a woman was gang-raped by members of the fraternity at a party two months...
...lost. She pledged support to the victor. No, she changed her mind. She would run again as a write-in candidate. Well, no she would not. She withdrew. She would support...
...apparently did not see that her candidacy was likely to draw white votes away from Republican Candidate Bernard Epton and ensure the election of Washington. Last week, with key campaign aides quitting and former Supporter Ted Kennedy stumping for Washington, Byrne, belatedly realizing she could not win, abruptly withdrew from the race. Her spoilsport campaign had gone nowhere...
...from their local bishop. Two priests have prominent positions in the Nicaraguan Cabinet, Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann of the U.S. Maryknoll Society, and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal, a secular priest and noted poet. Four others hold high government posts. But in 1981 Nicaragua's bishops withdrew their approval. A truce was arranged: the priests would remain in office, but they would have to wear civilian clothes when carrying out official duties and not perform religious functions. However, the revised code of canon law, which will go into effect next November, forbids all clerics "to assume public...