Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...churches are firmly committed to economic and social equality for the underprivileged; they are also one of the nation's major consumers of goods and services. Putting two and two together is Project Equality, an ecumenical campaign aimed at persuading churches to withhold their business from firms that practice racial discrimination in employment...
...reported), and three of these former delegates-including former Congressman Charles O. Porter-are members of our National Coordinating Committee. Even more impressive was the fact that we received only 65 negative responses. Other prominent Democrats have privately encouraged us, but for their own reasons have seen fit to withhold public support...
Columbia's recent decision to withhold individual statistics from the ECAC bureau was a wise move in the same direction. Statistics may be kept for the internal operations of the coaches, but releasing them to higher authorities puts an undue, irrelevant pressure on individual performance that is out of keeping with the nature of team sports. Harvard should follow suit...
...that HUAC had obtained membership lists of student anti-war groups by serving the administrations of Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Michigan with subpoenas. The ACLU, to prevent a recurrence of these hearings, wrote letters to the Presidents of 900 American colleges, urging them to withhold the membership lists of political organizations from HUAC. President Grayson Kirk of Columbia University announced that HUAC would have to take the university into court in order to obtain these lists...