Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of complaints from freshmen, the Union Committee issued a plea last night urging constituents to refrain from violence against the two bomb-throwers, who were apprehended Sunday night. They left the University yesterday. The Administration had no official comment...
...plea for action to halt the recent emigration of Cambridge residents, a member of the City government yesterday called on the University and M.I.T. to initiate improvements on local middle-income housing developments...
...government. Ely insisted that the Binh Xuyen could not be smashed without civil war. "Your attitude is helping them to survive when I could crush them," replied Ngo Dinh Diem. U.S. Presidential Envoy J. Lawton Collins, a former U.S. Army chief of staff in mufti, echoed Ely's plea for conciliation. "Nothing can be done with the Binh Xuyen controlling the police," replied Diem. "Have you ever seen a Premier who did not control his own police?" The French, who have never been keen for Diem and have had long and profitable relationships with his enemies, spread the word...
...revelations fill me with a sense of shame . . . that my country has negotiated its foreign policy from the stand point of spiritual apostasy and moral weakness rather than of strength . . . The Eisenhower-Dulles regime marks the wholesome arrest of a drift in foreign relations, but something more than a plea for changeless principle is needed. Sin and redemption are still primary reference points for national survival...
...Bets Down. After four days and long nights of debate, Faure laid in his final plea. His allies had helped all that they could. To ease the way, German President Theodor Heuss had signed the Paris accords, completing German action except for the formality of depositing the instrument of ratification. Secretary of State Dulles had sent a carefully worded message pledging the U.S. to "closest cooperation" with the new Western European Union. Faure played his trump...