Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Macoute, and other loyal supporters. The other half goes to government operations, which have all but shut down. Phone service is nearly dead. Lights wink on and off fitfully. Main waterfront roads are pot-holed or sometimes buried in six inches of muddy ooze. Business is grinding to a halt in the same way-partly owing to stiff taxes and partly to the emergence of a new, uneducated and sadly unprepared black elite that is replacing the bright, well-trained mulattoes who long ran Haiti's commercial life...
...Rusk is ironically repeating Chamberlain's very mistake, that of believing that it is possible to deal with a hostile great power by adjusting the territory it wishes to annex. Chamberlain believed that he could stop Germany by giving her part of Czechoslovakia, while Rusk is presently trying to halt China by denying her South Vietnam. Neither Rusk nor Chamberlain believe in confronting their enemy directly. Chamberlain, of course, may have come to power too late to effect much change on Nazi Germany, but, as several China scholars recently demonstrated in a signed statement, Rusk has several options to employ...
...Attorney General to take independent legal action to force desegregation of schools and other public facilities without waiting, as he must now, to receive a formal complaint. The measure would also institute procedures for eliminating racial discrimination in federal juries, and would empower federal and state courts to halt trials in state courts where there is evidence of juror discrimination...
...create a political organization to demonstrate largescale opposition to the highway and thereby convince state and federal officials to halt...
...committee is asking for a total reevaluation of the highway system for the Boston metropolitan area. It wants a halt to major highways in all parts of the system, until...