Word: halt
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...Paris talks, bogged down on the issue of a total bombing halt, have produced little illumination about the means to the end. Nor can the ingredients of a final settlement be found in the publicly stated goals of the principal antagonists. Hanoi demands the complete withdrawal of all U.S. and other foreign forces from South Viet Nam, the reorganization of the South according to the National Liberation Front's political program, and reunification with North Viet Nam. For its part, the U.S. wants an end to all armed aggression against the government of South Viet Nam and assurances that...
...full commitment to South Viet Nam. Over the past few weeks, as a lull in ground fighting continued, critics of the war have argued with increasing volume that the lull constituted Hanoi's concession toward peace. As a reciprocal step toward deescalation, they insist, the U.S. should halt all bombing of the North. Last week, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and President Johnson flatly rejected the notion that North Viet Nam had taken any such "political decision" toward a scaledown...
Policing the policy is the job of N.Y.S.E. Vice President Phillip West. He and his counterparts at the American Stock Exchange have power to recommend a halt in trading when unusual activity may indicate an insider's secret or an unexplained development. The Big Board halted trading in various stocks 720 times last year, sometimes merely to give time for important news...
When President Johnson announced the partial halt of North Viet Nam air strikes March 31, he left the strong impression that the bombers would be confined to areas just north of the 17th parallel and the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South. But he left the cutoff line vague on State Department advice, and the vagueness was deliberate. State strategists figured that the impact on world opinion would be greatest if immediately after his statement the bombing frontier was dramatically cut back to the vicinity of the 17th parallel. Diplomats assumed that the Pentagon would understand these motives...
Wilted Face. Two months later, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson approached Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in London with L.B.J.'s approval. The P.M. handed the Russian a note, prepared with the help of a White House liaison man, proposing a bombing halt (phase A) to be followed, after a face-saving interval, by mutual de-escalation (phase B). Kosygin had boarded a train to Scotland when Johnson abruptly decided that the proposed interval was too long. The embarrassed Wilson was forced to chase Kosygin down with a new proposal...