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Interest in the Harvard-South Africa relationship picked up a year later, when a small number of seniors asked alumni returning for their class reunions to withhold donations to Harvard, in protest of its investments in companies with links to the apartheid regime...
...likely to limit its impact." Bayard Rustin, stage manager of the original event, was another prominent no-show in 1983. Some Jewish organizations, angered by language in an early version of a march manifesto implying disapproval of the level of U.S. arms shipments to Israel, also decided to withhold support. In the end, however, the offending passages were toned down, and one of the march prayers was led by Rabbi Alexander Schindler, head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
Your story "Voting the Bankers' Way" [May 30] should have been titled "Voting Against the Overburdened Taxpayer." The "estimated $13.4 billion in new revenue" that would be gained by having the banks withhold taxes on income and dividends speaks for itself. Any "new revenue" for Washington is a new tax by definition. The banking industry has reported interest and dividend payments to the IRS on Form 1099 for years. If there is a great deal of "tax chiseling," the problem is one of enforcing the tax laws already on the books...
...potential medical and emotional factors that might affect her if she has an abortion. The court ruled that requiring this type of "informed consent" is unconstitutional. "Much of the information required is designed not to inform the woman's consent but rather to persuade her to withhold it altogether...
Interest in the Harvard South Africa relationship picked up a year later, when a small number of seniors asked alumni returning for their class reunions to withhold donations to Harvard, in protest of its investments in companies with links to the apartheid regime...