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...invasion of Egypt. When Russia's Arkady Sobolev strode into the Security Council waving a wire-service report that Britain and France were threatening to invade Egypt, Lodge promptly added to his Israel-must-withdraw resolution a provision calling upon all U.N. members (i.e., Britain and France) to withhold assistance from Israel "as long as it has not complied with this resolution." Britain vetoed. During the painful weeks that followed, Lodge found himself voting with Sobolev against historic U.S. allies, had the task of working out the details of the British, French and Israeli withdrawals. "I forgot what sleep...
...many leading British attorneys have differed. "Practically," Lord Chief Justice Sir John Coleridge said in the 1890s, "the question can never arise while barristers and judges are gentlemen." But if it did, according to Sir James Willes, he was satisfied that priests have an actual legal right to withhold confessional information because confession is for the purpose of absolution-a judicial...
...plan for 48 hours to give the NATO Council a chance to calm the growing bitterness between NATO Partners Greece and Turkey. In a concentrated diplomatic effort, all the other 13 NATO powers-led by the U.S.-pressed the Greeks and Turks to at least consider the plan and withhold violence that could endanger the alliance...
...vote, the Soviet Union, instead of imposing an expected veto, merely abstained as the Security Council voted 10 to 0 to investigate the charges that the U.A.R. was pouring men, guns and munitions into tiny Lebanon. Reportedly, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser had asked Russia to withhold its veto: he himself was not yet ready to involve his restless Syrian satellite in reckless adventures...
...Publicity Director refused to name any specific cases in which the dispute had influenced individuals to withhold contributions. He did, however, explain that "controversies can't help but hit some people who feel strongly about these things...