Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Council (which comes up for re-election next month) voted to ask the BRA to halt further evictions until the Legislature acts on Senator Cohen's bill. "They certainly don't want to appear to be lined up against the people," commented Coben, who noted that this was one of the few measures Councilor Katherine Kraven, an outspoken renewal foe, has ever gotten through the Council. (The bill has already been approved by the Senate Rules Committee and will go before the House Rules Committee Tuesday morning. A favorable vote is expected...
...Widnall, called Mayor Collins' proposal "totally inadequate and a cruel obituary to the hopes and desires of low income citizens." He termed the plan "a political whitewash... of a situation which has gotten too not politically" and went on to declare, "Unless this plan is changed to provide a halt to the eviction and demolition process while review of the blue-ribbon panel being made, Mayer Collins' statement will justly deserve a description as a political face-saving approach...
...House Rules Committee accepts Cohen's bill Tuesday, he believes that a Massachusetts Supreme Court judge would order the BRA to stop demolishing buildings and halt most of the evictions. But it would take until Wednesday at the earliest to get a restraining order. At the rate the BRA is tearing down buildings (this reporter's count is eight so far), most of the uninhabited structures could be gone by that time. About the only thing that would keep the BRA from knocking down everything in its way would be very strong pressure from Washington...
Eighteen years after the British had destroyed the Zulu nation, they crushed Benin. Objecting to the sale of slaves and human sacrifice, a consul general set out in 1897 with eight men to halt the annual ritual of slaughter; they were massacred. In retaliation, a battalion of British soldiers, 1,200 strong, destroyed Benin a month later and brought out as booty 1,000 bronze plaques, which were sold off in London to benefit dis abled veterans. It was the first major appearance of Africana in Europe...
pared for a long and uphill struggle," Cheong declared, adding that the bombings of North Vietnam "will have to continue until they are discussed with Hanol." He suggested "some sort of quid pro quo" be arranged, with America calling a halt to the bombings if North Vietnamese regulars return to the North...