Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin's assertion in London that a halt in the bombing could lead to negotiations, the White House answered: "Mr. Kosygin commented on the military action the U.S. should take, but made no mention of the military action the other side should take...
...statements here early this week Ambassador Goldberg emphasized that negotiations will provide the only road to a peace America desperately wants. Both Hanoi and Moscow have made it increasingly clear in past weeks that if the United States were to halt its air raids north of the 17th parallel some sort of peace talks could be initiated...
Though the words were carefully conditional and hardly conciliatory, several governments with consulates in Hanoi were advised by the Communists that it was a "semaphoric" statement. Accordingly, they relayed to Washington the implication that an American bombing halt might result in peace talks. U.S. Hanoi-watchers were quick to note that the "could be" statement did not once refer to North Viet Nam's oft-repeated four-point conditions for negotiations; in particular, it did not mention the Viet Cong as a full-fledged negotiating partner from the start. Beyond that, there was a great deal of conjecture about...
...regime Jlbricht has done his best to blunt the Bonn drive. His ambassadors in east-bloc capitals have been talking themselves hoarse about the dangers of West German revanche and the evils of deserting Communism's united front Ulbricht even appealed to the Soviet Union to call a halt to the trafficking with Bonn. It did no good. The Russians feared that their orders might not be heeded and might even alienate some countries that they are trying to enlist for support in their quarrel with Red China. Despite their usual cries about German militarism, they are not trying...
Phillips Brooks House has tried, and failed, to excite some Faculty interest in the Inner Belt. PBH's idea was to circulate a Faculty-student petition against the eight-lane highway and to call for a halt in planning until a major new transportation study for the metropolitan area had been completed...