Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid war with China, we advocate an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a halt to escalation. However, given the Administration's present assumptions, it is doubtful whether an American President can resist the pressures toward escalation while American troops are fighting and dying in South Vietnam. For de-escalation to be lasting, we must begin by de-escalation in our minds. We must regain some perspective on the whole question of China and of revolutionary wars. Because our analysis has shown that a victory of the guerrillas in South Vietnam would not undermine vital American interests...
...letter, Thomson asked: "Can we still learn from the bureaucratic record and, for once, call a halt before we have passed the point of no return? Or will the price of nonescalation -- of desesalation -- be once more calculated as unsupportably high, as we plow on toward calamity...
Though Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright denounced the assault as "just another indication of the rising momentum of fighting" and urged "some drastic action to halt it," his Democratic colleague Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was less alarmed. "Our troops have gone only to the doorstep of North Viet Nam," he said. "They are operating south of the 17th parallel...
...time, it protects the source from getting into trouble for divulging sensitive information. Over the years, however, too many Washington officials have become conditioned to making background material "not for attribution" through sheer force of habit. Washington Post Managing Editor Benjamin Bradlee finally decided to try to call a halt to spurious backgrounders in his paper. "Ninety percent of the information given by background," he declared, "could be on the record...
Toward that end, Lurleen delivered a TV speech in March invoking the discredited doctrine of interposition-the notion that a state government can halt any federal action it deems unconstitutional. Conjuring up visions of parents being jailed wholesale by federal agents, Lurleen asked the legislature to hire more state troopers. Not only must all Alabamians resist desegregation "in every possible way," cried Lurleen, but "the entire nation is the battlefield! This is what Hitler did in Germany...