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...talks, the words themselves begin to stir up whatever energy in him remains. "We must confront the present government. It must respect our wishes. It must cease and desist from protecting capitalism...
...Harvard community to do their part in this matter. I want particularly to implore those black students of this University who understand and accept the intellectual and moral principles upon which this great University rests to inform that section of blacks who violate these principles to cease and desist from this outrageous behavior...
Stretched Limits. The U.S. has been emitting a concentrated barrage of warnings to Hanoi to desist from launching an offensive and to stop shooting down U.S. planes. The daring raid on the Son Tay P.O.W. camp near Hanoi showed that the U.S. could mount a landing deep in North Viet Nam with near impunity. The bombing attacks the same night, involving some 250 U.S. jets, went beyond North Vietnamese antiaircraft defenses to include large concentrations of troops and supplies massed just inside North Viet Nam near the Laotian border. Early last week a lone U.S. F-105 fighter-bomber attacked...
...must immediately cease and desist your attacks on others...
...weeks ago, the commission took its toughest and most controversial steps yet to curb false advertising. Until now, the FTC's cease-and-desist orders permitted false or deceptive promotions to continue until all arguments had been heard by commission staffers, a process that usually took years. In the end, the advertiser signed a consent agreement promising not to err again. Last year a group of George Washington University law students argued that the FTC should take a much harsher stand and force offending advertisers to confess in their ads that they had lied. In two proposed orders...