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...post not only from conservative Southern Democrats, but from liberals who might more naturally have been expected to support Byrd's challenger, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.). In fact, so widespread was the liberal defection to Byrd that Humphrey, recognizing he had no chance of winning, withdrew. Two days later, however, Humphrey received a consolation prize--he was made deputy president pro tem of the Senate, garnering a $7500 pay increase, a limousine, a larger office, and no new formal responsibilities...
...admire cherry blossoms so much? Because they fall so quickly. When they're still beautiful, still pure, the aesthetic is right. That's why Miki will resign." Miki himself told an associate, "The Japanese sense of grace will not permit me to stay." With that, he withdrew for the weekend to his mountain villa 80 miles west of Tokyo to put the final touches on what is expected to be an unusual combination: an offer to resign tied to demands for reform. These include renunciation of "money politics," an energetic continuation of the Lockheed probe and the election...
...Paris and form a new government. This change occurred against a background of general dissolution to all resistance organizations following the Polytechnic revolt. The Karamanlis regime adopted some minimal positive measures, such as the release of all political prisoners, legalization of all political parties and free elections. It also withdrew from the military branch of NATO, though more in words than in fact...
...fact, a mobile-home version of Consciousness III-that pot-scented notion that mankind can somehow escape civilization and its discontents. Gnomic and unpolitical, ER is part of the new solipsism and characteristic of a lot of people who, disillusioned by the radical politics in the '60s, withdrew into the various styles of the "personal growth" movement. Reich's version is a kind of Peter Pantheism in which he offers his own autobiography as a guide to a never-never land. Natural beauty and loving friends heal the troubled soul there, and such things as lust, jealousy, guilt...
...Nobel Prize-winning Harvard biologist withdrew his name from the sponsor list of an international revolutionary conference saying he feared the meeting "might be infiltrated with FBI and CIA agents...