Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says that it will "cooperate." U Thant's notion of a cease-fire is based on a three-point proposal that includes the cessation of the bombing of the North. And the United States, for all of Goldberg's conciliatory talk, hasn't given any indication that it will halt the fruitless bombing for any length of time. In fact, only last week Air Force jets apparently bombed residential areas of Hanoi -- hardly a "military target...
THAILAND: THE NEW FRONT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The first of a three-part news special on "The Battle for Asia." Ted Yates is the narrator for this look at Communist expansion and U.S. determination to halt it in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and Viet...
...party's Central Committee wanted the Red Guards to go home -and told them so. Some did, walking or fighting their way onto the buses and trains of China's creaky transportation system, which the massive waves of pilgrimage have all but brought to a halt...
There were significant differences between last week's disorders and those of November-December 1964. Two years ago, well-organized campus rebels cleverly exploited broadly held malaise over the coldness of the "multiversity" to bring the school "to a grinding halt," as Savio put it. Last week the protesters were chaotic and focused on issues that were either trivial or phony-but the students, as though by reflex, were stirred up. "We have an emotional snowball on our hands," conceded Chancellor's Assistant John Searle...
...coming to a sudden halt-not so much because some of the kids were experimenting with pot and acid and free sex in nearby bachelor pads as because the scene makers are clogging the sidewalks and snarling traffic along the 1.8-mile stretch. Even that might have been overlooked had the Strip been tucked out of the way. But it is a main thoroughfare between Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, heavily traveled by both the local citizenry and tourists from afar. The politicians, the property owners and the police-the squares and the fuzz, as the "Strippies" call them-decided...