Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope, not reality. The Senator hopes that if we stop the bombing there will be peace-as if events had not cast even the slightest discredit upon such fatuous wishing. Until the Communists show an interest in a just peace that does not involve simple N.L.F. takeover, a bombing halt would be merely a quixotic exercise in futility...
...prime-time Sunday evening television address to the nation, the President made clear that the reappraisal had been far more definitive than had been expected. In a dramatic and unexpected turnabout, he announced what he called "a unilateral step toward deescalation." Its major feature, he said, would be a halt in all U.S.' aerial and naval bombardment of North Viet Nam. Only that portion adjacent to the demilitarized zone would be exempted from the order...
There are now nearly 20,000 fedayeen in Jordan v. scant hundred or so before the war-and their ranks are swelling daily. Whereas all guerrilla operations used to be controlled by the disreputable (and now discredited) Palestine Liberation Army, there are at least halt dozen independent fedayeen organizations, most of them less interested in playing Arab politics (as was the P.L.A.) than in fielding effective guerrillas. The largest, and to all appearances the most dynamic, of them all is Asita (thunderstorm), the paramilitary arm of a broader political group named El Fatah, whose commandos call themselves storm troopers...
President Nguyen Van Thieu rode through the hastily cleared streets of Saigon last week in his black Mer cedes and pulled to a halt inside the barbed-wire compound that Viet Nam's national television station shares with the U.S. Armed Forces network stu dios. Inside, he settled himself behind a green-cloth-covered table, permitted a makeup man to powder his high forehead, but refused to straighten his loosely knotted tie. "It will look more nat ural," he said. Then the cameras rolled and the President of South Viet Nam delivered his first major policy address...
Washington, D.C., Mar. 13 - Dean Rusk sang and danced on national TV for some seven hours today. Some of his most repeated routines were "The Common Danger to Us All," "The Yellow Peril Polka," "Halt Hanoi, Harry," and the old old standby of the Johnson Administration, "Lies, Lien, Lies...