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...with force on the squabbling provincial bosses and take away their armies. With one voice, the leaders-Congolese President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Joseph Ileo, Kasai Province's Albert Kalonji, Katanga Province's Moise Tshombe, and a covey of others-sent blunt warning to the U.N. to refrain from force and take no action until the Congo's black rulers could come up with a solution of their own. Then, to everyone's astonishment, the Congolese did just that...
...pink folder from atop a silver urn proffered by a kneeling courtier. In cadenced, elegant French, he read a message to "the countries of the world." Laos, he declared, was "a peaceful country, which for more than 20 years has known neither peace nor security." Savang Vatthana promised to refrain from any military alliance, to rid Laos of all foreign bases. All he asked was that a commission come in from his neutral neighbors-Cambodia, Burma and Malaya-to stop the fighting and to identify and denounce any foreign interventionists...
...students left when George Pattengill, director of the Association, interrupted a Nigerian speaker and asked him to refrain from making politically partisan statements...
...listing of great men tends to be controversial, and no doubt you will receive many comments on the list. I cannot refrain from adding mine: one of this country's greatest scientists, whose place in the history of the Atomic Age belongs very near the top, was Ernest O. Lawrence, and his name should have been included...
...While we refrain here from entering into the many pros and cons of the China question--more specifically the nationwide signal that seems to have been given for Red China recognition--it strikes us as worthy of attention to note the increasingly influential roles being assigned in our top echelons of government to former Harvard graduates, including also the new Budget Director David Bell and the new Defense Director Robert McNamara...