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...some nations skirted the bureau code by allowing private trade associations to take over the financing of exhibits; one member nation, Lebanon, defied it by going ahead with an official pavilion. More than 50 nations are represented, and of the major powers, only Great Britain, Italy and Russia abstain...
...French abstain when they can from their ill-tasting tap water in favor of vin ordinaire, and abhor the ice water that Americans call for. Such Gallic hydrophobia does not apply, however, to bottled mineral water. In the course of a year, the French drink 1.2 billion bottles drawn from 3,000 springs, or 25 bottles for every man, woman and child. By far France's biggest producer of mineral water is Source Perrier, a $79 million firm that has grown so prosperous from its natural springs that it now owns seven mineral water companies, a soft drink company...
...their own manner, by trying to expel South Africa from what is still occasionally known as the family of nations. Later this month, black leaders will propose sanctions against South Africa, and possibly its expulsion from the U.N. The U.S., while violently disapproving of apartheid, will probably abstain in any vote on the grounds that expelling all countries whose domestic policies are reprehensible could pretty quickly destroy...
Lowered Flags. There was a more material reason for the electrician to abstain from filial murder: Arab unity has been loudly trumpeted by Egypt, Syria and Iraq, but it has hardly been consummated. On the surface, everything seemed to be proceeding according to plan. Syria and Iraq lowered their national flags and raised instead the official three-star banner of Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic. Ministers raced from capital to capital discussing plans for merging foreign services, school systems, airlines and textbooks. Military delegations brooded over the vital amalgamation of the three armed forces. Jurists were hard...
Members of the council had previously objected to remaining in the NSA because of the political activities of the organization. At last week's meeting Evan A. Davis '66, had suggested that the HCUA might sponsor delegates, but instruct them to abstain from voting on controversial political issues. The council placed no such restriction on the delegates, however...