Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon's latest troop "replacement" was first forecast as imminent, then held up, then linked with an obviously futile short halt of B-52 bombings in South Viet Nam. When the announcement finally came, it turned out to involve only a modest 35,000 men to be returned to the U.S. by Dec. 15. That was about 10,000 more than the reluctant Joint Chiefs of Staff had conceded would be acceptable, but far fewer than many war critics think possible. It will bring to 60,000 the number of troops pulled out since the Administration outlined its gradual...
...strikes and industrial unrest by 40% over the next year, but the government, businessmen and the public appear doubtful that he can succeed. If Feather fails, Wilson could be hurt. The latest Gallup polls show that only 25% of the electorate think that the Labor Party can halt the stoppages; 31% think that the Conservatives would do a better...
What are my marching orders?" asked District Court Judge James Boyle on the telephone from Edgartown. "Halt," replied the clerk of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Boston...
Unchallenged Thesis. The postponement, of course, did nothing to halt his unofficial trial by popular opinion. Kennedy foresaw that his petition for delay would prompt talk about a "Kennedy power play" and "wealth and influence thwarting justice." But his lawyers increasingly feared that the inquest, under Judge Boyle's terms, could take on some aspects of a kangaroo court. Boyle opened the inquest to 103 reporters and denied that the hearing represented an accusatory proceeding. Hence, ruled Boyle, lawyers for the witnesses-including Kennedy and the others who attended the Chappaquiddick cookout-had no right to cross-examine...
Compounding the economic problem is the fact that morale has fallen off sharply since the halt in American bombing. As long as U.S. warplanes filled the skies over the North, workers and peasants were inspired to grim extra effort. Now, according to non-Communist foreign visitors recently in Hanoi, many seem to have relaxed their drive. Last June the newspaper Hanoi Moi reported that of 538 specific construction-industry quotas only 328 had been achieved or surpassed. Other papers maintain a steady barrage of complaint against pilferage, slackness and absenteeism, and at the beginning of 1969 the government found itself...