Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jews withhold financial support from politicians who speak their minds if what they say is not favorable to Israel. Arabs try to counteract. They withhold business from Jews. But that is a blacklist. Wake up, America: double standards will not get you anywhere...
Colby's request immediately created a dilemma for the newsmen. Each organization had to decide whether to withhold knowledge from the public of a secret Government operation or publish a story that, as Colby argued, might damage the nation's defenses. In short, the press was face to face with an old question: When does the right of the people to know end and the need to protect national security begin...
...Pacific Ocean. But when Jack Anderson broke the news on a radio show last week and forced his cautions colleagues into print with their versions, the strangest tale was not the underwater espionage ballet, but the story of how the CIA convinced 11 respected news organizations to withhold, rather than distribute, the news...
THERE MIGHT BE times when a paper should withhold news, but only if the consequences of disclosure are certain and disastrous. (The classic example is that a newspaper should not publish in advance the details of troop movement during wartime. Fair enough.) But there was nothing certain or disastrous about the consequences the CIA claimed would follow publication of the sub salvage story...
...kind of people to deny somebody who is fighting for his life the means to survive. As Americans I don't think we want to withhold ammunition from Cambodians when the enemy is at their door. If we are to blame for one small nation not being able to shoot back, this decision will haunt us for years. Therefore I believe ways will be found to get the resources needed here -and with the consent of Congress. I have bent over backward to be cognizant of Congress-not just of the laws, but of the spirit of Congress...