Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speakers argued that neither side has made any serious attempt to settle the war in Viet Nam, urged the U.S. to make the first move. By way of proving its good faith to Hanoi, they maintained, the Administration should immediately end the American buildup in the South and halt the bombing of North Viet Nam. Before marching around the White House, leaders of the demonstration-among them Old Socialist Norman Thomas, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., Pediatrician Benjamin Spock-expressed their opinions to White House Aide Chester Cooper, and seemed surprised that his response was "less than satisfactory...
Sanford Gottlieb, coordinator of the project, has stressed that "this is not a protest march but a march to make positive proposals." The proposals: an end to bombing in North Vietnam; a halt in the U.S. military buildup in South Vietnam; a declaration of willingness to negotiate with all parties, including the Viet Cong, to arrive at a coalition government for South Vietnam; reaffirmation of support for the Geneva agreement of 1954. These proposals represent a broad liberal consensus and do not invite sensationalistic press coverage...
...subway trains gasped to a halt, 800,000 passengers were trapped in them. In hundreds of stalled elevators, office workers hung tremulously between earth and sky. Traffic lights failed; main arteries snarled. Hundreds of drivers ran out of gas?only to discover that service-station pumps cannot work without electricity. Apartment buzzers summoned nobody. Most vending machines became inoperable. Fire alarms were mute. At the United Nations, earphones and tape recorders went dead, leaving bewildered delegates ?for the first time in memory?with the refreshing experience of having nothing to say and no one to listen...
Exciting Image. Surprised Filipinos searched for an explanation of the one-sided vote. Throughout the campaign, Marcos had been supplying what he thought was the answer: he hammered constantly on the theme that Macapagal had failed to clean up corruption in government or to halt the country's alarming crime increase. No one ever suggested that Macapagal himself was involved in anything shady, but Marcos' message apparently made a telling impression on the Philippine electorate. Then too, Filipinos prefer new faces in politics, have never elected a President to two full terms in the islands' 19 years...
...estimates that 1) U.S. indus try will have to spend ten times its pres ent $100 million annually for treating waste water if it hopes to end industrial pollution of the nation's rivers; 2) communities will have to spend at least another $1 billion a year to halt sewage problems; and 3) cleaning up the air will cost a stiff $2 billion...