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...AGREE with the majority that seniors should not donate money to the University until Harvard completes its divestiture of is South African holdings. However, was strongly believe that students should also refrain from contributing to the Steve Biko fund...
Catholic youths demonstrated and clashed with Belfast police and British troops throughout the evening before Sands' death, ignoring pleas from British officials that they refrain from violence...
Already the campaign is showing results, according to China's Xinhua News Agency. Some buses in Peking proudly display a yellow windshield strip designating "polite service." Store clerks are now encouraged to smile and refrain from snapping "see for yourself" at customers. Even some police, reports Xinhua, have begun to acknowledge "the mistaken idea that since they represent the proletarian dictatorship, they have a right to shout at people." From now on they will no longer yell "hey you" at traffic violators; perhaps it will be a polite...
...rest of the world as a model of socialist development? In the words of Vice-Premier To Huu, "We will be poor and we will be hungry" until the end of this century (Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 Jan. 1981). Ngo Vinh Long may wish to refrain from criticizing the regime. There is no need for such restraint on the part of others, as the regime is doing a fairly good job of crying mea culpa for its appalling economic performance (which, by the way, it is blaming on mismanagement rather than on American hostility and pressures). Meanwhile, the population...
...signing, 100 farmers took over a municipal building in nearby Inowroclaw, not unlike the 100 or so other protesters who had already been occupying the Bydgoszcz headquarters of the government-controlled United Peasants' Party for a month. The breakthrough finally came when peasant leaders agreed to refrain from staging new protests and to recognize the leading role of the Communist Party in their forthcoming charter. Nonetheless, the accord had all the makings of a severe new headache for Warsaw: Poland's Communist leaders were faced with another de facto power center outside their control, alongside the church...