Word: desisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Initial attempts to end the war failed. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim convened the Security Council in an informal session on Tuesday, but all its members could agree on was to express "deep concern" and appeal to the combatants "to desist from all armed activity." Said a U.S. official: "The Security Council is the logical place to sort this out, but neither regime has a history of paying much attention to the U.N." Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, on good terms with both Saddam and Khomeini, offered his services to help end the war and visited both Baghdad...
...commission voted unanimously to order the strikers, all members of Local 195, Independent Public Employees Association (IPEA), the city's largest labor union, to "cease and desist," and gave them until noon today to comply with the order...
...abutter can do anything he wants to on a private way, but we don't have to plow the snow and stuff like that," Crane said. "But if that's a public way, we'll tell Harvard to cease and desist with the parking spaces and instead put in meters," he added...