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Town building inspector Michael Card said his request that students refrain from going inside the shanties was not an attempt to enter into a political debate and not an effort to evacuate them for destruction...
...visit to Washington by Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, who has just completed 24 years of service as Moscow's man in the capital and who now takes on a job as a senior foreign policy adviser to Gorbachev. In his talks with Reagan and other Administration officials, Dobrynin continued to refrain from setting an actual date for a summit. But he did bring word that Soviet Foreign Minister Edward Shevardnadze was prepared to come to Washington for talks with Shultz on May 14 and 15 to lay the groundwork for a summit conference later this year. Dobrynin assured the President that...
According to Eastland, the framers of the Constitution and the 14th Amendment did not "contemplate sexual equality." Thus, courts should refrain from extending equal rights to women. Reagan, however, in his repeated attacks on the Equal Rights Amendment, has claimed that the ERA is redundant...
...statement from the Soviet government published by the official Tass news agency said Moscow "declares itself free from the unilateral commitment made by it to refrain from conducting any nuclear explosions." The self-imposed ban began in August and was extended twice since...
Most Americans apparently agree with Donaldson. In a 1985 Gallup poll, 62% of tobacco users and 85% of abstainers thought smokers should refrain from lighting up when nonsmokers are around. That agreement, say tobacco foes, is the result of well-publicized, though controversial, studies on the dangers of secondhand smoke. Explains John Banzhof of the Washington-based Action on Smoking and Health (ASH): "The burning issue in cigarette smoking now is not the harm you can do to yourself but the harm to others...