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...sooner had the [Camp David] treaty been signed than Begin gave up promoting the peace process. He withdrew into his pipedreams. At the same time he began to treat this peace we had struggled for as something banal, almost despicable...
That Harvard is a favorite should surprise the tournament selection committee, who did not include Harvard in the championships until the University of Virginia withdrew from the tourney. Harvard was originally barred from the tournament based on a technicality, even though the ruggers had already defeated four of the teams picked to compete...
...future. In the late 1950's the Carnegie Foundation stopped funding the center and the Ford Foundation took over. But in the wake of the Vietnam War, as the nation became less interested in international affairs and turned to face its domestic problems, Ford first reduced and then withdrew its support. And the small stipends which the center had previously offered its research associates disappeared...
...speakers rejected the alternative of a Third World center--advocated by the student Third World Center Organization, which last spring presented the first proposal for an institution to serve minorities primarily and which recently withdrew support for the Foundation...
...from some of the eleven factions that constitute the unwieldy Transitional Government of National Unity, official talk of the proposed "merger" with Libya has almost disappeared. "Nobody even mentions it any more," says a Western diplomat. Indeed, Chad has requested that the U.S. and other Western powers, who withdrew their representatives when the fighting broke out last year, reopen their embassies as soon as possible. But many countries appear reluctant to do so because they do not wish to give even tacit approval to a Gadaffi takeover. The Organization of African Unity has called on Libya to withdraw its troops...