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...fact is, we sometimes withhold information from print either because we're convinced that publishing it would put lives at risk or to protect national security. We've done that not only in the case of [kidnapped reporter] David Rohde but other kidnappings as well. We've done it in the case of state secrets. But we can't surrender to the government all the decision-making power...
...coup; and in 2005 it signed a five-year, $215 million development grant for the country. Because of the coup, the World Bank has already suspended $270 million in pending credit for Honduras as well as $80 million it had slated for 2010. The U.S. could also withhold trade, but that's harder to do since it entered into CAFTA, a free-trade pact with all of Central America...
...Lebanon's ruling March 14 alliance won a surprise majority in the country's hotly contested June 7 parliamentary elections, upsetting an opposition coalition led by the Shi'ite paramilitary group Hizballah. The pro-West, anti-Syria alliance's victory was lauded by the U.S., which had threatened to withhold financial aid to Lebanon if the Iran-backed opposition triumphed. Negotiations on the creation of a national-unity government are set to begin in the coming weeks, though Hizballah's insistence on retaining legislative-veto power is expected to be a source of contention...
5.On penalties for countries not taking strong enough action: "The U.S. government may withhold non-humanitarian, non-trade related foreign assistance. Countries that receive no such assistance ... [may] not receive funding for government employees' participation in educational and cultural-exchange programs...
...hand, is endowment-dependent. Spaepen, who declined to be interviewed for this article, is still taking things one step at a time. “I should not make any comment until I become director,” he said on the phone. “Let me just withhold my comments until I get there, OK? Bye.” —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...