Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Education, new, experimental public and private colleges have sprung up throughout the state. Faced with the difficulty of handling thousands of incoming residents, Brown has built the nation's largest toll-free highway system. He has kept the Southern California economic boom from coming to a rasping, bone-dry halt by forcing construction of a reservoir and water-pipe system rivalling the Tennessee Valley Authority in size and expense...
...significant increase in air armaments; while the President pleads for peace, the troop increases continue with no end in sight; and, most serious of all, while this country professes a desire to come to the conference table, the President tactlessly declares that the United States will never unilaterally halt the bombings of the North--thus damaging, in one brief, blunt moment the preconditions needed for negotiations...
...this represents only a start, and the Administration should next begin preparing the way for a unilateral halt of the bombing of North Vietnam. The facts on the bombings are these: they have, from all indications, made negotiations more difficult by embittering the North Vietnamese and stiffening their resistance; they are not significantly reducing the capabilities of the communist forces in the South, though they are probably making the logistics of supplying these forces more difficult; and they are exacting an enormous cost from the United States in terms of planes and pilots lost. A stop to the bombing, moreover...
Given this situation, President Johnson's unconditional refusal to consider a halt was unnecessary and stupid. Believing his pledges of peace becomes more difficult every day. If he really wants negotiations, he has boxed himself in once again, and he should start looking for a convenient...
...demilitarized zone near the 17th parallel, Hanoi did not reciprocate. The U.S. has also offered to initiate an over all bombing pause in return for assurance from the North of a comparable deescalation, but Hanoi's response has been to insist on a total and permanent halt of all U.S. bombing before it will even talk about holding talks...