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...days later, Campos quit her job. Prestes withdrew $50,000 from his bank and had the remaining $1.5 million transferred to a Swiss bank account, fund officials said. Not until June 2 did accountants discover that the money was missing, and by then Campos and Prestes had vanished...
...four supporters, S.I. Hayakawa of California, talked with Lefever, who by then had scant chance of winning on the Senate floor. Lefever quickly withdrew, even as the White House was still lobbying, if halfheartedly, for support...
...point, John withdrew from further sit-ins at Preterm and returned to college. "It seemed that going back wouldn't be an act of hope or love. There's so much ambiguity, complexity, and violence structured into the society that leads to abortion, that makes pregnancy a problem, a woman's problem." This thinking led him to try and develop support systems for the women who changed their minds. "We were taking people into our house in the South End, so that anyone who wanted to leave the clinic had a place to stay for a while. (Some of them...
...members of Mitterrand's coterie have been presidential candidates. Economist Michel Rocard, 50, headed the left-wing Unified Socialist Party in 1969, winning 3.6% of the vote. Last November he tried to win the Socialist presidential nomination, then withdrew when Mitterrand said that he would run. Now more moderate in his economic views (he has doubts about the benefits of nationalization), Rocard was the top choice for Premier, whether Mitterrand or Giscard won, in a poll conducted by L 'Express. Premier Gaston Defferre, 70, the party's most durable figure, was a presidential candidate in 1969, when...
...survival of Garcia Meza's regime also depends on diplomatic recognition from key developed countries. Joining the international outery against Garcia Meza in July, former president Carter withdrew the U.S. ambassador and suspended all "non-humanitarian" economic aid. Reagan's election has diminished hopes that this expression of opposition will continue. In a recent Commentary article U. N. representative Jeane Kirkpatrick advocates support of Garcia Meza's regime and argues that the human rights violations are not significant. Shortly after the article was published, nine Leftist leaders were massacred by the government...