Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shortly after Dutschke was shot in the head by a right-wing assassin in West Berlin nearly three years ago, the fiery radical student leader was granted permission to recuperate in Britain. James Callaghan, then Home Secretary in Harold Wilson's Labor government, imposed one condition-that Dutschke refrain from any political activity. Suffering from partial blindness and frequent epileptic attacks, Dutschke settled in Cambridge with his American wife and two small children. After Labor's defeat in last June's national elections, Maudling re-examined the Dutschke case on behalf of the new Tory government...
...defend his actions as a matter involving national security, some of the deliberations were held in secret, and Dutschke was not even informed of the evidence against him. The tribunal held that while Dutschke did not pose "any appreciable threat to national security," he violated his commitment to refrain from political activity by meeting with radicals in Britain and by traveling to Calais and Berlin to confer with like-minded revolutionaries...
...open and frank" to, in Mr. Bryce's words, "refrain from publicizing many internal difficulties and contradictions that we stumbled upon," particularly in regard to money? No member of PBH was ever presented with these difficulties. The subcommittee report also suggests that PBH misused the original Faculty of Arts and Sciences subsidy for central administrative costs instead of for consultants. A brief look at the PBH correspondence with Dean Ford, of which the subcommittee had copies, would have made clear that the original subsidy was always earmarked for such items as postage, automobile and travel expenses, and other central costs...
Perverted Power. Boasting an annual budget of $11.5 million, Traverse City Hospital wields considerable influence in the town (pop. 17,700). The manager of the local Sears, Roebuck and Co. store, David C. Zemke, wrote to Sommerness: "We will refrain from further use of this media. Please assure your employees that we value their patronage very highly and are indeed sorry if we offended them." After hospital officials threatened to move the institution's bank accounts, the National Bank and Trust Co. also canceled its advertising. So did Robert Dean, president of Red Mill Lumber Co., pointing out that...
Russian Trucks. The President once again based his position on "understandings" with the North Vietnamese dating back to November 1968. At that time the U.S. let it be known that in return for the bombing halt ordered by Lyndon Johnson, it expected the North Vietnamese to refrain from attacking across the Demilitarized Zone and stop rocketing South Vietnamese cities; the U.S. also intended to continue intelligence flights over the North. The North Vietnamese never formally agreed to the understandings. Instead, word came from Moscow that Hanoi grasped the American position. By and large, the North Vietnamese have stuck...