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While some Congressmen were swayed by such arguments, others simply followed the White House's leadership. In a startling turnabout, the Nixon Administration first eased its stand for a strong land-use measure and then last week apparently withdrew support for any legislation. The President desperately needs solid conservative backing in his struggle to stay in office. The White House reversal on land use, said Udall, reflected straight "impeachment politics...
Maguire, who received a six-week extension of its contract, also faced the problem of evaluating a project of indefinite size and design. Because of rising construction costs and community opposition, the Kennedy Library Corporation withdrew the plans for the complex it had unveiled last year...
...more astounding considering that interest on these loans is exempt from federal income taxes. For a lender who is in the 50% income-tax bracket, an 8% yield on a tax-exempt note is equal to a 16% rate on a taxable loan. Outraged, the state agency withdrew the notes from the market...
...called Movimento Anarquista dos Homosexuais Revolucionários pledged its unswerving loyalty to the new regime. Another band of anarchists marched into a government office demanding recognition as a "democratic opposition." When an official patiently explained that the government itself was now democratic, the firebrands shouted "Viva Spinola!" and withdrew to "reorganize...
...into why the Justice Department failed to unravel the Watergate cover-up in the summer and fall of 1972. One of its first witnesses will be Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen. Nixon put him in full charge of the Watergate investigation last spring after Richard Kleindienst, then Attorney General, withdrew because the probe's targets included some of his close friends and former associates...