Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...timing of the Nixon speech repeats a familiar pattern: Lyndon Johnson killed off the nascent McCarthy movement with his surprise step toward ending the war- the bombing halt- way back in March, 1968. Right now Sam Brown looks every bit the winner he was right after the New Hampshire primary, but once again he has every chance of ending up a loser...
...long ago it was widely held that opponents of the war had to limit their program to a demand for a bombing halt in Vietnam if they were to have any effect. The bombing was stopped, but the war goes on. Now we hear that the demand for immediate withdrawal has become permissible, but to argue for the Vietnamese revolution is a political dead-end. The anti-war movement has never been well served by this sort of pessimism; it would not be well served...
...Legal Defense Fund lawyers have asked the court for a prompt ruling on the recent delay in desegregating Mississippi's schools. If the court agrees to hear the case, the result could be an early clash with the Nixon Administration, which took the unprecedented step of requesting the halt. Justice Hugo Black, who supervises the Deep South Fifth Circuit for the high court, has asked the Government to reply to the fund's petition by Oct. 8. Last week Assistant Attorney General Jerris Leonard asserted that a decision to compel desegregation throughout the South this year would...
Despite his acid criticism, McHarg is convinced that the U.S. can replan its cities, curb pollution and halt suburban chaos. As he notes, "America is land rich -90% of the people live on 2% of the land. The answer to our environmental problems is diffusion. The 100 million more people we expect in the next few decades could be settled in 100 new cities. We have everything we need: the land, brains, wealth, technology. We only need the desire-and leadership." Eventually, by helping to provide that leadership, McHarg may match the work of his hero, Capability Brown...
...Controls. The slowness of this schedule prompts the cry for more direct action against prices. Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii warned the annual conference of the American Bankers Association in Honolulu last week: "No one likes wage and price controls, but we may have to institute them temporarily to halt galloping inflation." Many labor leaders agree, provided that similar controls are put on profits and dividends. At its convention in Atlantic City, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last week called for Government action to hold down the costs of medical care, insurance and housing. The Administration, however, remains dead set against price...