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...even though the President is firmly and publicly opposed to such a step. Nixon himself, however, is responsible for the Administration's early indecision on the surtax and tax reform. As a result, the tax is tied up in a Senate committee (the Treasury has been empowered to withhold the tax temporarily) and the financial markets may not know for weeks exactly how the Government will fight inflation...
...FOREIGN AID. Congressional liberals have threatened to withhold support from the $2.65 billion foreign-aid bill. It is a risky maneuver, since the Administration could saddle them with the political blame if the bill fails to pass. But it is also a measure of their discontent that they are taking that risk to dramatize their view that domestic needs have higher priority...
They are circulating a pledge to withhold contributions from Harvard because of Harvard's policies on ROTC and expansion. It was uncertain last night how many seniors had signed the pledge...
...State William Rogers, "Don't think you can get our support, Mr. Secretary, for any kind of imposed settlement now being cooked up [for the Middle East]" [May 9]: Just who designated this person as spokesman for the American Jewish community, whose support he dares threaten to withhold from the legally constituted representative of the American people charged with the conduct of our foreign relations...
...longtime friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru. It was not enough, however, to save his job as Defense Minister in 1962, following the rout of Indian troops by the Chinese on the Himalayan border. Menon remained in the Lok Sabha until 1967, when Patil -the party boss in Bombay-managed to withhold Congress Party endorsement from Menon, who was running for his old seat in North Bombay. Menon then ran as an independent and lost...