Word: withheld
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...reinforcements. At the same time, tank forces and additional motorized infantry would move across the borders from the Soviet Union and East Germany. Soldiers from the satellites would be used sparingly, in case anti-Soviet feeling flared throughout the East bloc. East German troops would probably be withheld completely, since the Poles hate the Germans even more than they hate the Soviets. Rumania, which refused to take part in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, would probably refuse to invade Poland...
...destroyed the Peking Opera and the theater by permitting only dull, politically correct works. (Nowadays at theatrical performances, foreigners sometimes find themselves clapping more than the Chinese present; the guide explains that during the Cultural Revolution, when attendance was compulsory but the programs awful, the Chinese withheld applause as a form of retaliation, and are only now beginning to clap again.) Everybody knows that many of the bureaucrats who waged the Cultural Revolution still occupy high places. But the government's propaganda campaign lets writers, intellectuals and the public denounce the wrongheaded policies of their party and their government...
...union victory. Under the deal, which came just before the Supreme Court let stand a National Labor Relations Board order permitting the A.C.T.W.U. to organize inside Stevens' plants, the company will pay about $3 million to workers in Roanoke Rapids in compensation for wage hikes withheld for the past 15 months. The A.C.T.W.U. also won promotion by seniority, a checkoff for union dues, better grievance procedures and arbitration of disputes. While the union may extend the contract to other Stevens plants where it wins elections or is declared bargaining agent by court order, it agreed not to recruit...
...share of support .in the U.S. Congress. Lately, however, it has been getting a measure of criticism, particularly over its policy of building new Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank. Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson of Illinois offered an amendment to an Israeli aid bill that would have withheld $150 million of the $785 million in economic grants to Israel until Jerusalem imposed a moratorium on new settlements. The measure was defeated 85 to 7. A day before, Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, the Washington Democrat who has long been one of Israel's best friends in Congress, told...
Rumors spread that the Cubans from the U.S. might have to wait a month before being allowed to take their relatives to Florida. Meanwhile, restrictions on journalists were tightened. Cameras and film were seized and accreditations were withheld...