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...quite impressive the number of timesgroups have ceased to exist because federalrecognition has been withheld," Roessell said...
...Losses (Stoddart Publishing), a controversial Canadian best seller that claims at least 960,000 German soldiers died in U.S. and French army camps in the final months of World War II and afterward. They were victims of deliberate neglect, says Bacque, because Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower withheld sustenance from a despised enemy...
...Eisenhower proposing that German prisoners be deemed "disarmed enemy forces" rather than prisoners of war, since providing the level of rations assured for POWs by the Geneva Convention "would prove far beyond the capacity of the Allies." Ike's request was granted, and adequate food, water and shelter were withheld from the prisoners. Alone among the Western Allies, the U.S. refused to permit Red Cross inspections of its 200 camps...
...Kleiman and Mark Moore, but his article might have been more constructive if he'd showed some signs of familiarity with these men's work, which includes the recommendation that marijuana enforcement be reduced, not expanded. This contrasts sharply with the President's recent proposal that federal funds be withheld from universities which fail to implement "effective" anti-drug policies. By and large, of course, it's not crack that college students are smoking...
...state for as yet unspecified damages. In a campaign of harassment (financed almost entirely from cleanup funds provided by Exxon), state officials manage to find fault at every turn. Says Steve Provant, a state cleanup coordinator: "I don't think any of the beaches are clean." Recently the state withheld approval for Exxon to use a floating incinerator it had brought to Alaska at a cost of $5 million after initially telling the company that burning was the preferred method of waste disposal...