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...State Department withdrew an advance party of seven American consular officials from Kiev and expelled 17 Soviet diplomats from a temporary consulate in New York City...
...World Wars I and II snuffed out the 1916, 1940 and 1944 Olympiads. The 1972 Munich Games were shattered by an Arab terrorist attack on the Israeli team that left eleven Israeli athletes dead. Past Games have also been boycotted: in 1956, for example, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands withdrew from the Melbourne Olympics as a protest of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. And in 1976, 28 African nations abandoned the Montreal Games as a protest against the participation of New Zealand, a country with strong sports ties with the apartheid government of South Africa...
...emergence possible has come about as the result of a tangled political crisis that began last summer, when India's ruling Janata Party split in two. The leader of the breakaway Lok Dal faction, Charan Singh, was named Prime Minister of a shaky coalition government. But when Gandhi withdrew her party's support, parliament had to be dissolved. With Singh remaining in office temporarily as caretaker Prime Minister, a new general election was called 21/2 years ahead of schedule...
...with the life he saw around him. He rejected the aging Madeleine (Joséphine Derenne) and married her coquettish younger sister Armande (Brigitte Catillon), 20 years his junior. Armande, in turn, made him a cuckold and a figure of ridicule for his enemies. The king withdrew much of his support, and toward the end of his life Moliére felt that his talent had dried up. He contracted tuberculosis, and one night, after playing the lead in his last play, The Imaginary Invalid, he collapsed and died...
...price is high in terms of idle reserves. The fact that some big commercial banks offer many of the other services at a modest fee is encouraging smaller banks to forgo access to the discount window and leave the system. When Chicago's Oak Park Trust & Savings Bank withdrew its $9 million reserves from the system last May, its earnings rose...