Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public, Kosygin witheringly blasted the U.S. for its role in the war. But in private, he signaled a new Soviet willingness to try to end the war, even agreed to ask the North Vietnamese if they would offer what Washington calls "elementary reciprocity" in exchange for a halt in the bombing...
...matter how the foreign students react to an emancipated NSA itself, they have shown their fear of the CIA before. In Berlin, for example, students recently called on the mayor to halt CIA activities at the Free University. Recruitment of German students by the CIA was described in the New York Times on Monday. The CIA appears to have confined itself to individuals and there is no evidence that it funneled large-scale grants to student organizations...
...quadrupling its membership and in achieving some kind of tolerably representative status, the implications of its "adversary" stance are grave. One can refuse to sign a petition, one can even refuse to accept any salary increment resulting from the unlikely success of such a petition, but one cannot easily halt the trend towards an industrial-type confrontation. Harvard becomes a factory, Teaching Fellows become machine operators, the undergraduates become sausages and the administration the evil board of directors. My great-great-grandfather, who organized the miners on the Radstock coalfield, must be turning in his grave at the sorry...
...some short-lived speculation that Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy, during a briefing in Paris this month, had been given a peace feeler to relay to Johnson. Actually, about all that Bobby got was a muffled replay of Trinh's implied proffer of peace talks after a bombing halt...
...Colombia's life (it accounts for 70% of all foreign exchange), and a 10% drop in world coffee prices in the past six months contributed to an 18% drop in the country's foreign exchange earnings. The economy-and the country-was about to grind to a halt. Then President Carlos Lleras Restrepo went on nationwide TV and announced that he had averted bankruptcy by arranging for a $200 million stand-by credit with the International Monetary Fund, AID and the World Bank...