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When France withdrew from Vietnam and again from Algeria, although there accumulated much popular support respectively behind Mendes-France and de Gaulle, these near parallels to our own proposed action are also quite different in that leadership in these painful disengagement's over there came from the head of government. And in the American Revolution, although there was indeed Edmund Burke, who could see English principles victorious in the rise of the Revolutionary Republic, it was the thirteen colonies themselves who wrought the victory...
...hotel, where he wrote out a statement of resignation. But before he could make it public, Premier Golda Meir, who apparently had become alarmed at Dayan's stubbornness, sent aides to bring him to her office for a long talk. Under her calm persuasion, Dayan cooled off and withdrew his resignation threat...
...Stauder split the Soc Rel Department over the issues of student sectionmen and course curriculum. With more than 700 students enrolled, his course was one of the most popular last spring. When he felt the course would be compromised this year (by not allowing student sectionmen, for instance). Stauder withdrew his course from the catalog. The same idealism typified his behavior in the bust of University Hall and its aftermath...
...friend, President John F. Kennedy, about a matter of interest to the Southern Railway Co. As a result, Kennedy asked his staff to discuss the case with the Justice Department, which decided to support the company in a suit against the Interstate Commerce Commission. Eventually the ICC withdrew an order concerning Southern's grain freight rates that the company believed was not in the public interest...
...start of the hearing, however, one of the six original families resisting eviction withdrew its complaint. Counsel for Sanley Zalesky told the court that Zalesky had reached an agreement with the BRA and will accept re-location. This left only five families as plaintiffs gainst the eviction proceedings...