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After two ballots, the council voted to recess until next Monday night "and to stay here then until we elect a mayor." One of the councillors who voted for the motion noted that, if further balloting then failed to produce a mayor, the council could vote to go home anyway...
Chicago Hospitality. Obviously well briefed on this legal point, Daley kept his TNT temper hidden. At times he glowered. During a recess. Defendant Abbie Hoffman said to Daley: "Why don't we just settle it right here and now? What is it with all these lawyers, anyway?" The mayor merely laughed. Though he stared stolidly past Kunstler during much of the questioning, Daley replied courteously when he had the chance to answer at all -which was rare. Prosecutor Thomas Foran repeatedly objected to Kunstler's questions, and Judge Hoffman sustained Foran's position 70 times. When Kunstler...
...case, but it is also true that Gromyko was the only seasoned senior negotiator available in Moscow at the time. First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, who ordinarily handles Western European affairs, was preoccupied with negotiations with Peking, where he returned last week after a two-week recess in Moscow. Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semyonov is engaged in the SALT negotiations, which after a successful five-week preliminary round in Helsinki will reopen in Vienna on April...
Moments before the delegates were scheduled to recess for a luncheon of poached bass at the Italian embassy, Foreign Minister Panayotis Pipinelis of Greece interrupted the proceedings. Waving his hand in the air, he told Italy's Aldo Moro, chairman of the Council of Europe meeting in Paris: "I have something further to say." With that, the small, sharp-featured Pipinelis, 70, announced that Greece would resign immediately from one of Europe's most prestigious political forums. He did not have to explain why. Everyone in the room knew that the first order of business after lunch would...
Three times, Hoffman asked Seale to be seated; then he called a luncheon recess. After reconvening the court, the judge solemnly read off what he called only the "most flagrant" examples of Scale's misconduct. When he announced that Scale's case would be "severed" from the others, Seale blurted out: "Hey, what are you trying to pull now?" When told that he would be brought to trial again in April, Seale replied: "I demand an immediate trial right...