Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surprisingly, Mr. Dirksen refused to say specifically what he would do to the policy if he were in charge. In his Thursday talk, he stopped short of requesting a bombing halt and limited his insights into the future to the comment that the opportunities for peace would be enhanced if a Republican were elected President next year...
...tests were urged on the FTC by Washington Democrat Warren G. Magnuson, the Senate's chief anti-smoking warrior. The commission, which had called a halt to the tobacco industry's health-prompted "tar derby" back in 1960 on grounds that no standard testing methods existed, reversed itself last year at Magnuson's behest. With the new rankings, which will be revised periodically, Magnuson hopes that now "the American smoker will choose his poison" and force the industry into another derby...
...only mean war with Greece but would inevitably start a slaughter of Turkish Cypriots that no number of Turkish soldiers would be able to prevent. Yet so great was the public pressure in Turkey on Premier Demirel for quick action that the Greeks themselves despaired that the warning could halt the train of events. Athens stopped broadcasting weather bulletins so that the Turkish air force could not use them to plot bombing missions. Reports from Turkey said that the invasion fleet was waiting only for the onset of better weather...
...cost of the five-month rebellion has been frightful: more than 1,000 killed on both sides, at least 27 of them white civilians; the halt of practically all economic activity in rich Kivu province; and heavy damage to Bukavu, the mercenaries' stronghold. Last week the Organization of African Unity demanded that the mercenaries' home countries pay reparations to the Congo as the price of their release...
...Roman cops were not so sure. When the visitors, lacking a table to sign papers on, began moving a heavy stone slab around to make do, a dozen carabinieri came on the run to halt what looked like desecration of a national monument. When the sideshow ended at last, "the Greatest Show on Earth" passed to its new owners...