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...Agnew, withhold your wit and will. Desist from your dissonant diatribe and rejoin the ranks of the silent majority...
Last week the SMC voted 15-5 to withhold its support of the October 31 mass demonstration and instead endorsed a day of intensive political activity in support of Referendum...
Harvard is now trying to work out an acceptable "affirmative action" plan for the hiring of under-represented groups, including blacks and women. If Harvard and HEW cannot reach an agreement, the federal government's ultimate weapon would be to withhold about $60 million in federal funds...
...because he opposed that move. Union President John Griner, 64, faced serious opposition to his re-election for the first time during his eight years in the post. Says Griner: "The Government is bringing on itself a situation where employees, particularly in the lower pay classifications, are going to withhold their services no matter what...
...conducting almost nightly raids on Israeli border outposts, the fedayeen often depend on artillery cover from regular Arab army troops. In the event of a ceasefire, the Arab governments presumably would withhold that tactical support, as Jordan's King Hussein last week ordered his troops to do. But the guerrillas could still shower Israel from three countries with their small-arms fire and with rockets and mortars. Israelis who live in settlements near the Jordanian, Syrian and Lebanese frontiers will almost certainly have to continue sleeping in shelters, even after a formal cease-fire begins...