Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meantime, despite the rising political pressures for a bombing halt to try for peaceful negotiations, the prospect in Viet Nam now is merely for 24-hour cease-fires at Christmas and New Year's, with another 48-hour hiatus in February for Tet, the Buddhist lunar New Year...
...members of the two groups. At least 17 persons were killed, 400 injured and more than 20 others kidnaped, including two federal policemen. The N.L.F. accused FLOSY of starting it all and swore "vengeance in full," but in Cairo leaders of the rival group pleaded with their followers to "halt the bloodshed and unite...
Gaining Sustenance. Behind all the angry words, the most thoughtful discussion last week concerned the possibility of a bombing pause (TIME, Oct. 6). Insistence on a halt in attacks on the North came from all quarters. Massachusetts' Republican Senator Edward Brooke, who only seven months ago came to the support of the bombing, switched his ground to demand a halt to heed "the call of the nations of the world." In the press, LIFE magazine suggested that a pause might...
...almost nine years since Fidel Castro seized power in Havana. Despite the hopes and efforts of the United States and Latin American to bring Cuba's economy to a grinding halt, to "prove it can't work"--despite the blockade--the renegade island's economy appears to be moving rapidly forward. Reports indicate that by next spring, Cuba's GNP will at last surpass its 1958 level...
Death on TV. They have indeed been aroused, but not quite in the way that Lin and Mao would have wished. Some Sinologists, taking advantage of National Day to sum up their feelings on China, are now convinced that a halt has been called to the Cultural Revolution-but that the chaos and dis order it has spawned among China's restless masses are far from finished...