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...reneging on a campaign promise to keep the public informed. "President Kennedy," noted Pulliam, "was on record in writing as believing in freedom of information. To date, neither he nor his Administration has completely lived up to his promise." Observed Pulliam: "We honestly feel that much information is being withheld, not for security reasons, but to protect individual mistakes...
...result of the Committee's "exercising the powers of prosecutor and judge," the statement charges, ". . . educational abilities and skills developed through long years of training have been withheld from the community. And this at a time when qualified teachers are in tragically short supply...
...voting restrictions on Negroes in the U.S. he stated even America could not be called democratic" since "the vote has withheld from a certain number...
...repeated phrase "600 million new customers." From the past record, the Japanese should know that Red China is interested in politics, not business. Two years ago, Peking unsuccessfully tried to use a $196 million trade pact as a lever to secure diplomatic recognition. When the Japanese government stubbornly withheld recognition, the Chinese peevishly broke the pact and flooded Japan's Asian markets with cut-rate textiles and consumer goods. But the Chinese bait is nonetheless as enticing to many Japanese as is the Russian talk of the offshore islands...
...strict silence as to the subject of their conversations with President Kennedy. Washington newsmen began to sense that something big was in the works, something more than the energetic enthusiasm of a new Administration plowing into its problems; the New York Herald Tribune actually dug out the story, but withheld it after Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger explained that publication would be "inimical to the interests...