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...favor of a showdown summit, Pravda meekly moderated its claim last week to a mere "absolute majority." But the phrase that best revealed Khrushchev's uncertainty of control over his onetime charges was a promise "to collaborate conscientiously in those areas where positions and interests coincide, and to refrain in future from any actions harmful to the Communist movement which aggravate difficulties and bring happiness to our class enemies." With that, Nikita sat back anxiously to count his R.S.V.P.s...
...duty of a lawyer engaged either in the prosecution or the defense of a person accused of a crime to refrain from any action which might interfere with the right of either the accused or the prosecuting governmental entity to a fair trial. To that end it is improper and professionally reprehensible for a lawyer so engaged to express to the public or in any manner extrajudicially any opinion or prediction as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, the weight of the evidence against him or the likelihood that he will be either convicted or acquitted...
...centuries?" The 9,500-word polemic called Khrushchev's meeting "arbitrary, unilateral and illegal," and in the viciousness of its tone helped to widen the already gaping split between the two Red nations. To end the letter on a properly inscrutable note, the Chinese chose a poetic refrain from the Sung Dynasty...
...wonder if the folks in Harlem can refrain from looting, from throwing bricks, Molotov cocktails, empty pop bottles and rocks long enough to denounce Barry Goldwater again because of his stand on "extremism" and civil rights...
...public rest rooms is still under construction for the Olympic games area (nobody seemed to have included enough public toilets in the original building plans), and in the hope of stopping a practice that might offend foreign guests, posters are going up in the subways, pleading: "Let's refrain from urinating in public." The $19.4 million Shiba Prince Hotel and the $38 million Otani Hotel are racing to join the already finished Tokyo Hilton and Okura...