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Yale's ROTC withdrew voluntarily, Griffin said. "Because of the contractual arrangement with students, they were not satisfied with our allowing students to withdraw from their courses," he said...
...April 30 address-and been ridiculed for. This time he was flanked only by an American flag and a presidential flag. Throughout the speech, he was restrained and businesslike. When it was over, he paused for just a moment to chat dutifully with the TV camera crew, then withdrew to his family quarters to receive congratulatory calls from supporters...
...Massachusetts House of Representatives withdrew its support for the United Farm Workers union boycott of non-union grapes and lettuce yesterday...
...prospect obviously pleases the Nixon Administration. Since Britain, the region's longtime constable, withdrew from the Persian Gulf in 1971, the U.S. has made no attempt to fill the power vacuum; its Middle East naval force based in Bahrain remains at two destroyers. But, faced with a growing shortage of energy and increased Soviet influence in the gulf area, the U.S. is eager to ensure its Middle East sources of oil. This can be achieved, Washington feels, by arming friendly Iran, as well as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait...
...years later, the Revolution dwarfed such domestic miseries, Akhmatova's marriage dissolved (Gumilyov was later shot by the Bolsheviks), and she withdrew into a brief marriage to an Assyriologist. Unlike many well-known artists, Akhmatova chose to remain in Russia. I am not one of those who left the land/ to the mercy of its enemies begins an uncompromising poem that goes on to be unnecessarily contemptuous of those who fled...