Word: halt
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Slapped Down. It was Humphrey who, seeking to convince skeptics of his dedication to peace, forced the controversy to the surface. He has experimented with optimistic predictions over the past few weeks. In private Administration meetings, he argued for a bombing halt, somewhat to Lyndon Johnson's irritation. Twice Humphrey publicly suggested a softening of U.S. war policies-through a bombing pause and troop withdrawals-but each time the President publicly slapped him down...
...normally the mildest of men, was beside himself. "Outrageous!" he stormed. "We are, by our accomplishments, making the Senate look ridiculous, picayune and incompetent to handle the business of the people." The problem, really, was a lack of accomplishments. Repeatedly lacking a quorum, the upper chamber ground to a halt several times. At one point the Senate went into a 1-hour and 40-minute recess owing to what Mansfield testily termed "a complex development." That development: Senator Allen Ellender's 78th birthday, which he marked by whipping up his annual luncheon of Louisiana creole gumbo for Lady Bird...
Regional Preserve. On the Viet Nam issue, Secretary General U Thant last week only underscored the U.N.'s impotence when he mused at a press conference what might happen if a resolution was presented calling for a halt to U.S. bombing in North Viet Nam. Thant made no mention of a reciprocal move and conceded in advance that such a resolution was "not a very practical proposition." U.S. Representative George Ball concurred. In what turned out to be one of his last state ments before resigning (see THE NATION), Ball judged the Secretary General's comments...
Humphrey claimed to be breaking new ground on the Vietnam issue by calling for a reevaluation of American commitments abroad and promising, if elected, to halt the bombing of the North. But on neither issue did the Vice-President genuinely dissociate himself from the stand of his predecessor...
...construction and delivery of the address were shrewdly designed to play up Humphrey's offer of a bombing halt, and to play down its conditional nature. But the text speaks for itself: "As President, I would stop the bombing of the North as an acceptable risk for peace... In weighing that risk--and before taking any action--I would place key importance on evidence of Communist willingness to restore the demilitarized zone..." The purposeful ambiguity of the section of text in which this sentence appears cannot disguise the fact that Humphrey, like Johnson, demands crucial concessions from the North Vietnamese...