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...onetime executive secretary of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). As a liberal democrat he was eager to see Peru show its support for the democratic principles of the Alliance for Progress, and it was he who recommended when the Peruvian junta took over that Kennedy suspend diplomatic relations and withhold aid. Washington promptly did so, partly out of fear that military brass in other Latin American countries might be tempted to follow the example of Argentina and Peru. Last week, as Peru's generals seemed in peaceful command of their country, President Kennedy called home Ambassador Loeb for "consultations...
...Kennedy offered to settle many of those grievances that do not affect U.S. sovereignty: more employment and higher wages for Panamanians in the Canal Zone, the right to have the Panamanian flag flown next to the U.S. flag everywhere in the Canal Zone, a U.S.-enforced system to withhold the income taxes of Panamanian and non-U.S. workers in the Canal Zone. But the concessions President Chiari had really come to bargain for he did not receive...
...Have Judged Hastily." At the long afternoon meeting last week in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Merriam's scattered handful of supporters were given little chance to speak. A motion to withhold further action until the delegates had more time to study the report was voted down. In an impassioned speech that brought tears to the eyes of women parishioners sitting in the gallery, Merriam accused the presbytery of taking unjust and ill-considered action against him. "Fathers and brethren," he cried, "you have judged us hastily, and you have judged us wrongly.'' The presbytery...
...longtime advocate of liberalized foreign trade, but he has not yet made known his views about the particulars of the Administration bill. He is dead set against much of the President's tax-revision plan, especially the provision that would require businesses and banks to withhold a tax on dividends and interest. Says Byrd: "The businesses of this country pay the highest taxes in the world, and I don't see why they should have to turn around and go through such a very costly process of collecting taxes for the Government...
...bill proposes that corporations deduct part of their technical improvement costs from taxes, that they withhold twenty per cent of all dividends and interest, and that savings and loan associations pay increased taxes on earnings. The associations claim that the with-holding proposal involves new taxes, would take money unjustly from honest taxpayers, hurt elderly widows and orphans, and create red tape...