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...approved another resolution calling for students "to refrain from violent confrontations except in cases of self-defense." Enforcement should be left to the proper authorities, a BSA member said...
Connally stressed that while we should not cancel the summit, we also should not refrain from doing what we thought necessary out of fear of the Soviets' doing so. Whatever measures we took...
...COMING WEEK at Seabrook, the sanctity of private property rights must yield to the sanctity of human life. The occupiers will be unarmed and trained in nonviolence. We hope that the police will refrain from using their water hoses and attack dogs. And we hope a successful occupation will convince America to turn to a safer, saner energy future, one free of nuclear power...
...shareholders' meeting last May, several religious and social organizations introduced a shareholders' resolution calling on the bank to refrain from making new loans and renewing old ones to the South African government and its agencies, Miriam Greene, a spokesman for Bank of America, said yesterday...
...reading, nothing about the machinations and power struggles inside the government, or even Betty's boozing, or Jack's affair with Bianca Jagger. The whole book could've been written out of the New York Times. And no real insights into Ford himself, Ford the Man, except for the refrain "I was damn mad" and stories like this...