Word: withholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both McCloskey and his audience disagreed with a proposal by Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.) that the CIA disclose all its sources, methods and operatives on the grounds that the executive branch has no constitutional right to withhold information from Congress...
Suspicion Rampant. Yet how much is too much? "To try to avoid agitating other disordered minds," suggested the Times's William Shannon, "the media could withhold photographs of the would-be assassins and play down detailed coverage of their lives." Few editors would accept the notion of such self-censorship. Once it became known that editors and reporters were suppressing or playing down stories for whatever reasons, suspicion would be rampant. Says Norman E. Isaacs, publisher of the Wilmington, Del., News and Journal and editor-in-residence at the Columbia University School of Journalism: "The amount of rumor would...
...urge as strongly as I can that Congress withhold approval of this inherently inadequate peace-pact, and instead ask the United Nations to consider the Middle East problem, along with other planetary danger spots. The creation of a planetary government, with power limited to disputes between and among states, but with powers adequate to adjudicate these disputes, is, in my opinion, the sine qua non of human survival in the thermo-nuclear...
Last spring, 130 rising sophomores were assigned to one of their bottom three housing choices--most of which were in the Radcliffe Quad. The assignments provoked anger, petitions, and threats to withhold payment for room and board--they started a grassroots movement to change the whole system. As one angry freshman remarked, "The housing system is a failure and the University is trying to make us pay for their mistakes...
...time, inflation has added to the amount of money needed for survival. All in all, the welfare rolls have increased by some 38% and payments by 11.3% since 1968. The situation is so bad that some states are defying the Federal Government, and a few counties have voted to withhold payments to their states...