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...visiting undergraduate from Kuwait. We withheld his name upon request to protect his relatives still in Kuwait...
...First the President outraged many Republicans by backing away from his "no new taxes" pledge. Then, after both sides agreed to submit budget proposals simultaneously in late July, the Administration plan leaked and Republicans, seeing that it was studded with new taxes, bolted. The Democrats, relishing Bush's discomfort, withheld their ideas, and the summit collapsed without discussion of specific new revenues or spending cuts...
...have contingency plans that could result in the insertion of up to 200,000 to 250,000 ground forces before it's all done," said the source, who spoke on condition that further identification be withheld. Such moves could take up to two months, the source said...
...treating Israel like other nations is beyond Washington's courage, then certainly the U.S. must insist that the extra $400 million in congressionally approved housing loan guarantees be withheld until Israel promises not to move Soviet immigrants to the occupied territories...
...their communications with Managua, the Soviets were always subtle. With the crisis over, the helicopters that were withheld in December were sent to Nicaragua at the end of January. Moscow, however, assured Washington that they were equipped for civilian use only. In explaining the Kremlin's decision to send the choppers after all, a Soviet academic at a Moscow think tank offers a lesson in the application of pressure. "To maintain one's influence in a situation," he says, "it is often necessary -- in fact it is usually necessary -- to both give and withhold. Especially in Latin America, where every...