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...argues that U.S. foreign policy cannot be based on personal moral beliefs. Nonetheless, it does seem possible that regimes such as those of South Korea, Chile and Uruguay, which are heavily dependent on American support, could be nudged into loosening some of their grip by threats from Washington to withhold...
...fell short of what they needed to command a formal role in the government. The Christian Democrats were unwilling to share power formally with the Communists. They were also on warning not to by Western allies, who at an economic summit in Puerto Rico in June agreed to withhold aid to Italy if Communists entered the government. Scratching for alternatives, the Christian Democrats considered another center-left coalition, but that was dashed when the Socialists, who got a poor 10% of the June vote, refused to join...
These explanations seemed adequate to U.S. officials and residents of the area around Dulles. But they are unlikely to find much support among Concorde opponents elsewhere. Anti-Concorde forces have already persuaded the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which controls Kennedy International Airport, to withhold the craft's landing permission pending a six-month evaluation of its noise levels in Washington. The plane's loud departure from Dulles suggests that the delay may be a long one. Though a later departure was considerably quieter, the noise from the first Concorde takeoffs exceeded New York...
...drearily familiar story: a consumer buys an auto, refrigerator, sofa or whatever, and signs a time-payment contract. The product quickly breaks down or proves otherwise defective, and the dealer refuses to repair or replace it. Understandably, the consumer then tries to withhold payment-only to find that his contract has been sold by the dealer at a discount to a bank, finance company or other lender. The lender proclaims, quite correctly, that as the purchaser of a presumably valid contract-in legal parlance, as a "holder in due course"-he has no responsibility for the merchandise...
Eighty-five per cent of Mather seniors who pledged to donate within the next four years to the Harvard-Radcliffe College Fund have signed a petition indicating they will withhold payment of their pledge until significant steps are taken to solve the crowding problem...