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While the exact amount of the debt was withheld by members of the SAC and officers of the Review, it was placed in the neighborhood of $2000 by a former member of the Committee...
Aware that they could easily be used by Carter as foils in his drive to persuade the public to accept his program, most leaders of the oil and auto industries deliberately withheld their public fire?and ire. Said Frank Ikard, president of the American Petroleum Institute: "No segment of society is going to have everything its own way. But it would be tragic if strident divisiveness prevented the creation of a meaningful policy." Yet from Houston's Petroleum Club to Detroit's Athletic Club, leaders of the most affected industries were fuming...
Most Republicans withheld comment this soon in the legislative battle. A few indicated that the fight would not be completely partisan. Declared Illinois Senator Charles Percy: "It's the greatest challenge any peacetime President ever gave the nation, and I don't think it's going to be as unpopular as the President says. He's in line with the underlying thinking of the people. The country wants leadership." Democratic Congressman Morris Udall likened some of the protest to imaginary congressional reaction on the day after Pearl Harbor: "You interviewed the Congressman from Detroit and he said, 'The Japanese attack...
...accordance with this feeling North House instituted the policy of setting aside a dining hall for women periodically. From 1970-1976 the North House committee continued to sponsor and provide sherry and publicity for the dinners. This fall, North House voted its 'support' for the dinners but withheld its funds, so the RUS legislature allocated a part of its own budget and solicited funds from other House Committees to maintain the tradition. Five well-attended dinners have been held this year in Radcliffe dining halls. They have been warm, lively, animated gatherings of women who rarely have such an opportunity...
...Just to give absentee ballots to final club members and not to other people who missed the meeting is unethical," one Republican Club member who withheld his name said yesterday...