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...political static from the south by playing soothing mood music. Souvanna, who thinks that the Communist-dominated Pathet Lao will call off their guerrillas if only somebody will talk to them nicely and invite them into the government, called on Prince Boun, "whose patriotism is well known," to desist from his "initiative." Then he went off to visit the King Savang Vatthana. But even as he spoke, someone blew up the waterworks in Vientiane. Souvanna sadly ordered all of Prince Boun's relatives rounded up for questioning-all except the prince's brother Boun Orm, who is Souvanna...
...United States," said President Eisenhower, "deplores the unilateral action of the Soviet Union in supplying aircraft and other equipment for military purposes to the Congo . . . The United States takes a most serious view of this action by the Soviet Union ... I urge the Soviet Union to desist. The United States in tends to give its support [to whatever action] the United Nations finds necessary within the limits of its charter to keep peace in this region...
...Security Council that "certain assistance from outside" was keeping the threat of civil war alive and gravely handicapping the U.N.'s task. In Washington, President Eisenhower considered the Russian intervention so serious that he had a special statement ready at his press conference warning the Soviets "to desist from unilateral activities." Ike charitably admitted there was no direct evidence of Russian military pilots operating the 11-yushins. But the pilots were certainly not Congolese-the Congo has nobody capable of flying a two-engined plane. To all this the Russians retorted that they would continue aiding Lumumba as long...
...after the Federal Trade Commission accused him of boosting his $45 million-a-year business by deception and coercion (TIME, April 11), Dancer Arthur Murray cha-chaed his way out of the jam, hardly stubbing his toes. He agreed last week to an FTC consent order "to cease and desist" the practices, thus avoided a tough day in court and the prospect of even more damaging publicity. In exchange, the FTC closed its case...
...natural sciences course, or do a good job with an important introductory "survey," but confound the men who drone through the petrified information on their dog-eared three-by-five cards year after year, or recite from their glittering galley-proofs until the Dean has to ask them to desist...