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...class committee will soon solicit contributions to enable Harvard to continue with its great work. I propose the opposite, and will soon begin a pledge campaign to withhold donations from Harvard until the Administration offers some adequate statement about this military juggernaut which will soon force us by scores into the jails or out of the country. One way or another, we will be unable to contribute financially to Harvard; it is time now to declare that understanding to President Pusey. Thanks to his silence about the relevant issues and his eagerness to condemn the weak and beaten...
...Diem regime in 1963. But by week's end, under pressure from the U.S. embassy, the government reversed the order and indicated that it would let Martin stay. As a reminder of its displeasure, though, it refused to clear the latest issue of Newsweek, forcing the distributor to withhold all 3,000 copies...
...working to save my country." He made it plain that he would not under any circumstance abdicate, and that he as King still represented Greece's only legitimate government. He met with U.S. Ambassador to Italy G. Frederick Reinhardt and urged that, to give him leverage, the U.S. withhold its recognition from the junta government. He reportedly telephoned Karamanlis in Paris, and members of the King's small entourage conferred with representatives of George Papandreou's Center Union Party about the possibility of setting up a government in exile...
...chanting students gleefully tore up Springer books and magazines. Oblivious to similar acts in the Nazi era, left-wing Erlangen University students staged a burning of Springer publications. A group of liberal writers declared they will never again write for a Springer paper and urged their publishers to withhold advertising from Springer publications. When Springer went to give a speech at the Hamburg Overseas Club recently, he had to slip in a side door while five squads of riot police protected him from angry pickets, whose banners declared: "Never before in any land at any time has so much power...
...decided yesterday to withhold endorsement of four proposed constitutional changes which will be submitted to a college-wide referendum...