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...Coop is found guilty, the judge will order the store to "cease and desist and to post a notice on the premises to that effect" Pyle said...
...become too political. "The Egyptian army should have been converted to a fighting army after the 1956 Suez war," Sadat told al Hawadess. Egypt at that point had suffered a military setback, "but we turned it into a political victory" (when President Eisenhower forced Britain, France and Israel to desist in their combined attack on Egypt...
...being cheated. In addition, Kehoe set up a department of consumer services to collect and act on consumer complaints. In July alone, the department got 6,000 complaints, many about housing-repair contractors. All told, the department helped to bring legal action, including license suspensions and cease-and-desist orders, in 2,371 cases...
...once lonely band of congressional opponents to the war has grown over the years until the group now threatens to become a majority. That was made clear in a series of votes last week. Inching ever closer to a cease-and-desist order to the President, both the Senate and the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed antiwar measures. It was enough of a setback to cause Nixon to denounce his critics more vigorously than ever for encouraging the North Vietnamese to fight on. "We would hope," he said at his press conference, "that public figures in their comments will...
...restraining order commanded that HSWOC "desist from and refrain from (1) illegally picketing: and (2) annoying, harassing and intimidating employees or customers while on the picket line...