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...with three counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over subpoenaed documents on covert intelligence operations. If the full House votes to cite Kissinger, a move that would be unprecedented, the case would go to the courts. Kissinger said last week the President had directed him to withhold the material on the grounds of Executive privilege. The Secretary, visibly upset and reacting strongly, said he regretted the committee's action, declaring it raised "serious questions all over the world about what this country is doing to itself and what the necessity is to torment ourselves like this...
Last Tuesday graduate students living at the Cronkhite Center signed a petition to withhold payment of rent until "meaningful discussions" concerning improvement of housing conditions were held...
...budget bills and sent them on to the Senate, which is narrowly controlled by a conservative coalition of Fraser's Liberals and the National Country Party. Violating a traditional understanding for the first time in Australian history, the Senate blocked the budget by exercising its power to "withhold supply"-that is, cut off money essential to government operation...
...include three former teachers loyal to him. These men held the fate of New York in their hands. They simply told Big Mac that they would not buy the retirement board's remaining $150 million share of Big Mac bonds. Without that investment, the state would have to withhold a $250 million payment due last week, and the city would be forced to default...
...tente debate suffers from a number of misconceptions and oversimplifications. One is that détente is a favor we grant to the Soviet Union, or that we can withhold it as a punishment. The fact is that we are attempting to carry out a foreign policy geared to the realities of the period. One, that the Soviet Union is a nuclear superpower, whose military potential cannot be effectively wiped out in a surprise attack, any more than ours can. This being the case, any war between us will involve colossal, indeed catastrophic, damage...