Word: withholds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the plan. Two weeks ago, Azcona hinted strongly that if the Sandinistas fail to comply with all the requirements of the peace plan by the Nov. 5 cease-fire, he would no longer feel bound to abide by the accord. Last week, however, he encouraged President Reagan to withhold further military aid to the contras at least until January, when the five Presidents will evaluate the plan's progress. He suggested that Congress might approve Reagan's request for $270 million in new aid, then place it in escrow...
...report lists more examples of conferences and courses where the Pentagon forced scientists to withhold research results because of the presence of foreign scholars. This has forced several professional societies, such as the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, to close their conferences to foreigners rather than risk inviting Pentagon interference...
...outlook was obviously affected by his wife's deteriorating health. In early 1971, surgeons had operated on Claire Bork, then only 41, and pronounced her hopelessly ill with cancer. They told Bork she had only six months to live and urged him to withhold the news from her. Instead, the Borks retained new doctors and Claire began a prolonged campaign to beat the disease through operations and chemotherapy. Though she was in remission for much of a decade, the battle finally ended in 1980 when the cancer reached her lungs. "She was determined to fight it until her children were...
...renewal. Late in 1984 a memo from John Poindexter, then Deputy National Security Adviser, to his boss, Robert McFarlane, set out a deceptive scheme: "Continue active negotiations but agree on no treaty and act to work out some way to support the contras either directly or indirectly. Withhold true objectives from staffs...
...Many of the ways in which the Government uses its data banks seem at least reasonable. The Internal Revenue Service, for example, uses computer searches to withhold tax refunds from people who have defaulted on federal loans. But other intrusions on privacy are far more dubious. One agency concerned with press leaks matched the telephone records of its employees to the phone numbers of prominent Washington reporters...