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...budget contribution from 31% to 25% of the total. By comparison, such African states as Zambia and Burundi voted with the majority 92% of the time, according to the World Association of World Federalists, while Nigeria and Yugoslavia scored 85% and the Soviet Union 60%. The U.S. withheld support from 15 out of 20 key resolutions. It refused to support a proposal that the Indian Ocean be declared off limits to foreign navies, and it came out against a resolution once more ordering Israel out of occupied Arab territories. It also refused to legitimatize armed struggles in southern Africa because...
Since I am a student in the department, and am not so ignorant that I cannot learn from Bowles's case, I prefer to have my name withheld. A Graduate Student in Economics
Elisabeth Furtwangler, widow of the famous conductor, Withheld Furtwangler, will speak about her husband's life and work at 3 p.m., Sunday, December 10, in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
That makes his total worth $1,283,256, compared with $980,400 in 1969. Against his assets, Nixon lists $518,038 in mortgages and trust deed notes for the real estate properties, plus $100 for payroll taxes withheld for the Social Security deductions of Nixon's personal valet, Manolo Sanchez. Since the presidency provides for most of his needs, Nixon in theory should be able to save a good portion of his $200,000 salary plus $50,000 expense allowance. His only other source of income while in the White House is the interest earned by his savings accounts...
...Showdown. Sadat's decision, although it appeared to take even the Soviets by surprise, had been building for a year. In that time the Egyptian President made three trips to Moscow. On each, he vainly sought such withheld offensive weapons as surface-to-surface missiles, fighter-bombers equal to the U.S.-made Phantoms flown by Israeli pilots, and longer-range artillery. Sadat argued that an offensive capacity for Egypt would either allow it to recover territory lost to Israel if diplomatic efforts failed or force the Israelis to negotiate seriously in order to forestall another war. The Russians demurred...