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...quietly withhold some flashy weapons, such as tanks and guns. But minor hardware and spare parts are the crucial materials which must be withheld in order to pressure the regime into calling elections. Opponents of a serious cutoff (Talbot is among them) offer three basic arguments; it could weaken the Greek defense, and hence, NATO; it could lead to civil war; and it is unnecessary since the junta is already moving to wards a new constitution...
...Gulf of Aqaba by marching down the Sinai Peninsula to the sea. It is a natural temptation?but it is a measure of Israel's new maturity that it has so far been resisted. Risking national unpopularity and dissension even within his ruling Mapai party, Premier Eshkol, 71, has withheld Israel's sword, counting on diplomacy and the good will of such friends as the U.S. and Britain to work out the problem...
Local Loyalty. Now Pacific Southwest, which operates entirely inside California, has asked approval to fly the Orange County-San Francisco run, but so far the state has withheld permission. For its part, Air Cal woos local loyalty through such amenities as free airport parking, quality booze (Chivas Regal, Beefeater, Jack Daniel's) for the standard $1 tab, and eye-catching stewardesses' uniforms (orange and ochre with Spanish-style capes and hats). More than half of its stewardesses are Orange County housewives who quit other airlines to marry. They are, of course, happy to fly again with the line...
...shown disapproval by withholding a few flashy planes and tanks -- a fact which never reached the Greek people. It is the minor hardware and spare parts that constitute the crucial part of America's $78.7 million in annual military aid. These materials must be withheld if the U.S. is to cripple the coup and demonstrate its concern for democracy to the Greek people...
...employment policies became an issue that embroiled the city's church and civic leaders. Warned Florence ominously: "What happens in Rochester in the summer of '67 is at the doorstep of Eastman Kodak." At FIGHT'S urging national Methodist, United Church of Christ and Episcopal leaders withheld proxies on church-owned stock from management...