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...based its decision on Section 7 of the 1914 Clayton Act, to which Government lawyers had devoted only six pages of their 100-page brief and only perfunctory oral argument. Section 7 bars a corporation from acquiring stock in another, "where the effect of such acquisition may be [to restrain commerce] or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce." Ruled the Supreme Court (in the majority opinion written by Justice Brennan): the facts showed a "reasonable probability" that Du Pont's stock interest in G.M. "is likely to result in the condemned restraints...
...gullibility of many people in this country to the snares of Soviet propaganda," Lawrence pointed out that even the original USIA budget request for $144 million was minuscule compared to Russian propaganda outlays, and "a mere pittance for the dissemination of ideas that could influence people abroad, restrain capricious rulers and prevent...
...taut, made a more eloquent plea: "I want to be a free man, but I do not want mercy or a compromise. I did not fight against the system or the idea, but only against those who besmirched it and discredited it, who shut their eyes, who tried to restrain the development of socialist progress and who played games with our faith. We made mistakes, but our aim and ambition were pure and honest. I do not worry about my own fate. One can get used to prison. But if I go to prison, my family-an ailing wife...
...Sharm el Sheikh indefinitely while the U.N. seeks an advisory opinion from the World Court as to whether the Gulf of Aqaba is an international waterway, as Israel and the U.S. contend. Nasser reportedly also agreed not to rush Egyptian troops back into Gaza and to try to restrain his fedayeen. (Presumably Nasser is willing to have the UNEF between him and the superior Israeli army.) But Nasser refused to modify his claim of "belligerent" rights against Israel despite the 1949 armistice. With so little in hand, Hammarskjold returned to New York without even bothering to stop in Israel, whose...
...Algeria's civil war, now in its third inconclusive year, there are no front lines, no territorial objectives, no general rules to restrain belligerents-only a war of repression and attrition. Result: a sentiment d'inquieétude spreading through France, based on the growing realization that while the Algerian struggle is one the French cannot afford to lose, it is also probably one they cannot win. Also spreading is the feeling that the 380,000-man French army in Algeria, reduced to waging a gloryless police action, is using cruel and cynical methods in totting...