Word: withholding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have hoped that the prospect of forgone interest income and sharply reduced bank profits would force U.S. lenders to give in to its demands for easier terms. But now that several major banks no longer assume they will receive Brazilian interest anytime soon, the debtor's threat to withhold payment indefinitely is less menacing. Says one banker: "We are saying to Brazil, 'We can survive.' " New negotiations begin this week in Manhattan between representatives of U.S. banks and Brazilian banking and government officials...
...voted, 230 to 196, to place a six-month moratorium on aid to the contras, until there is a full accounting by the Administration of money, both public and private, generated on behalf of the rebels, including $27 million in humanitarian aid sent in 1985. The measure, which would withhold the $40 million remaining of the $100 million appropriated last year, was an artful ploy linking opposition to the contras with congressional disgust over the Tower commission's revelations about the Administration's inept and probably illegal efforts on behalf of the contras. "Before we send another dime...
...Corps applicants. A few states may be moving toward mandatory testing. Some examples: in Georgia, a committee of the legislature has approved a bill that proposes permitting the exchange of information regarding AIDS victims among health-care professionals. In Illinois, legislation is pending that would require state officials to withhold marriage licenses if a prospective spouse tests positive for the AIDS antibody...
Nevertheless, even Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, co- author of a bill to withhold the funds, concedes that the contras will get their money. Senators who voted for the contra aid bill last year are unwilling to reverse their stand so quickly, Dodd believes. Moreover, if both the House and Senate voted for an aid cutoff, they still could not round up the two-thirds majorities needed to override a certain presidential veto. Dodd doubts that the issue will come to a Senate vote. Says he: "I'm not sure if it makes sense to hand the President...
...Hastings Center at Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., calls the shortage a "classic triage" situation. "Who do you give it to?" he says. "You're not going to throw the drug away on someone who is so desperately ill that he will die anyway." He is also inclined to withhold it from drug abusers, who, along with homosexuals, are the principal AIDS sufferers and might waste the treatment by reinfecting themselves. Nor does he feel anyone but medical professionals should decide. "Desperately ill patients are not in a position to make that choice," he says...