Word: desist
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...ECAC. which must enforce all NCAA edicts among its members, chastised Yale for using Jack Langer, whom the NCAA had declared ineligible, in a varsity basketball match with Brown. Wednesday night. It further ordered Yale to "cease and desist in such use of an ineligible player," under pain of possible further punishment, which could include suspension from both the ECAC and NCAA, forfeiture of all contests in which Langer has participated and exclusion from any NCAA or ECAC tournaments for which Yale might be eligible...
...Europe, the French in Algeria and the U.S. in Viet Nam. Though the Israelis have neither killed nor left Arabs homeless in the punitive actions, their decision to adopt the practice brought condemnation from the United Nations General Assembly's Social Committee. A resolution urging the Israelis to desist was passed 51 to 11, with fifty countries abstaining, among them the U.S., Britain and France. In a vicious blast, the Soviets likened the Israelis to Nazi Germany...
Kochubiyevsky, in his final, futile statement, was repeatedly interrupted by the judge's orders to "desist from engaging in anti-Soviet propaganda." Concluded the engineer: "I am convinced that this trial will explain much." Kochubiyevsky's sentence: three years at hard labor...
...neutral. I am on the side of all those who are deprived of justice and freedom. I will apply myself to your problem." Among the first applications was a 40-minute tongue-lashing directed at the Rev. Ian Paisley, the extremist Protestant minister. Home Secretary Callaghan warned him to "desist from inflaming the situation and start defusing...
...brought a new approach to campus violence in February when he issued a carefully thought-out set of rules for handling demonstrators. His eight| page letter put students on notice that persons disrupting the campus would be warned, "given 15 minutes of meditation," then suspended if they did not desist. Hesburgh's initiative, which he took only after sounding out faculty, alumni and student groups, brought him quantities of favorable mail, including a letter from President Nixon that warmly endorsed his "forthright stand...