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...that HUAC had obtained membership lists of student anti-war groups by serving the administrations of Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Michigan with subpoenas. The ACLU, to prevent a recurrence of these hearings, wrote letters to the Presidents of 900 American colleges, urging them to withhold the membership lists of political organizations from HUAC. President Grayson Kirk of Columbia University announced that HUAC would have to take the university into court in order to obtain these lists...
...more extensive bi-racial busing program is not even considered in the present plan. The Committee, in addition, has continued to withhold its support from private busing programs such as Operation Exodus--run by Negro parents--except to permit them to bring children to any school which has empty seats. Genuine, widespread pressure throughout the school system for a fundamental redistribution will not be exerted...
...which are losing $1,000,000 a day. When labor leaders decided that enough was enough and called for strikes and protest demonstrations, Onganía's government barred street rallies by the unions, broke off all dialogue with the confederation and ordered state-owned broadcasting stations to withhold any mention...
Dean Watson, chairman of the Faculty Committee on Athletics, said last night that he had not heard of the proposal, and so preferred to withhold comment...
...find very little indeed to buy there. Instead, they turn to the streets, where peddlers spread out on dingy cloths a weird assortment of wares, ranging from fountain pens and door hinges to toothpaste and flashlight batteries. They are much like the farmers in this rice-rich country who withhold paddy from their only legal purchaser-the government-because there is so little incentive...