Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus they find themselves in a vicious circle. In this situation, there is more and more talk of the need to find a formula to end the war. Some suggest a bombing halt to test whether, as United Nations Secretary-General U Thant maintains, Hanoi really will show up at the negotiating table in a matter of days. Others propose the establishment of a joint command to give the U.S. greater leverage over the erratic South Vietnamese army. But one U.S. officer argues: "We've got to make sure that when we walk out of here some...
Egal, a portly, fast-talking merchant's son who was educated in Britain, has called a halt to the guerrilla war that Somali tribesmen have waged for years over disputed land with neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. He has dismissed 3,000 troops from his 11,000-man army and put the rest to work part-time clearing land and building roads. He has asked to join the newly formed East African Economic Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) because he feels that Somalia has a better chance of building a viable economy by cooperating with Black Africa rather than with...
...ancient Greece, the Olympic Games were a sacred rite, quite distinct from any other facet of the classical existence. They were the supreme test of the individual, and in his triumphs a source of great pride to the chauvinistic city-states. During wartime the Greeks would halt hostilities to observe the Olympiad--a tribute to the gods. In a very important way, the Games and athletics in general stood above the political sphere...
...this time possible to answer either of these questions. All that can be said for certain is that the courts are inundated with personal injury cases and that delays are growing--in one jurisdiction at least the judicial process for civil cases has come to a (temporary) halt...
...Harvard Young Republican Club has passed a resolution calling for "an immediate halt to the bombing of North Vietnam and unconditional negotiations with all concerned parties, including...