Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publicly--stirred the sudden and exhilarating hope that a major obstacle on the road to peace had been swept away. Only three months previously, President Johnson appeared to mute his earlier--and ill-advised--demand that the North Vietnamese de-escalate their military activities in exchange for the bombing halt required to initiate talks. In a September 30 speech at San Antonio, Johnson said he only "assumed" the North Vietnamese would not "take advantage" of a respite from the bombing. This statement was more concilitory than anything since his promise to Ho Chi Minh nearly a year ago that...
...with the V.C. or Hanoi has provoked several outbursts of indignation from President Thieu. During the past few weeks, he has assured his subjects--and us--that he will never permit the Vietcong to join a coalition government in Saigon. Nor will he ever talk to the Vietcong. A halt of the bombing is out of the question. In other words, the Saigon government thinks that all the feasible means to end the war are nonsensical. Sadly, each of Thieu's brash remarks inevitably draws the American response that the little leader has nothing to worry about...
...officers who were venting their anger on me, with no precise goal in mind, had reached its peak." They were "amusing themselves," said Debray, "by firing between my legs and as close to my head as possible." Then along came some Spanish-speaking CIA agents who "called a halt to such shenanigans, summoned a doctor and at first treated me with utmost courtesy." In Washington, the CIA would neither confirm nor deny Debray's story. Whatever role the CIA may have played, Debray's life was probably saved ultimately by the intervention of U.S. Ambassador Douglas Henderson...
...real question is whether the United States and the Communists are willing to compromise with each other. Johnson has said that before he will order a bombing halt he must have some proof that talks will be "productive." But with one fleeting exception, any American definition of that term leaves no ground for negotiation...
...year, 40% more men would be walking beats (instead of riding desks). "We'll whack away at crime with every damn thing we've got," said Lindsay. Meanwhile, a county grand jury in Nashville urged that the death penalty and heavy prison sentences be imposed to halt "the avalanche of crime and arson that has come upon us," and suggested that the city's 488-man police force be increased by 250 more men. "Because it appears that we have reached a point in this community where a person is not safe...