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...take the back seat to Senate cloak room politics when the ratification hearings commence. No one on the Hill can predict any outcome for the treaty vote: rumors last week had it that a few key Senators, notably Frank Church (D-Idaho), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, will withold their support until they have carefully considered the complete treaty. In general, Congress seems willing to let Carter draw all the blame for foreign policy problems these days, and the Senate shows no inclination to help him out. As one Senate staffer stated Monday, "We don't want...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Campaigning for SALT | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

...December 1972 meeting to set this year's budget, the CPB, with an eight-to-seven Republican majority, voted to withold funds from most PBS public affairs shows, accounting for thirty per cent of PBS's programming. William F. Buckley's "Firing Line". was dropped from the schedule, as was "Bill Moyers' Journal, Washington Week in Review" and $85,000 worthof Sander Vanocur. Said Loomis, "We ought to be spending our money on the kinds of programs that would stand up timewise for six months or a year...non-timely offerings." Obviously, programs that stand up "timewise...

Author: By Leonard G. Learner, | Title: Nixon at the Switch | 11/29/1973 | See Source »

...Withold academic credit from any courses offered by the three branches of ROTC at Harvard in the future...

Author: By Teaching FELLOW In government and Stephen Krasner, S | Title: Violence and the Reasons Against It | 11/4/1969 | See Source »

...report estimated that 20,000 non-white students attend racially imbalanced schools and urged that legislation be passed compelling localities to correct imbalance. It also recommended "as a last resort" that the state withold aid to force change...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Committee Attacks School Segregation | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

Therefore, we and our seed must have a care not to dwell among them. For, it shall be unto the University of Chicago and the University of California as it was unto Sodom and Gomorrah! Brethren, we must not withold our life-giving power, we must spread it broadcast throughout the wilderness to produce good fruit and choke these western weeds. Only Harvard can save; we must have a care for the cancer of heresy in these black and troubled times. Amen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errand Into the Wilderness | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

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