Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been damaged, along with some foreign embassies. "The way things are going," said one disillusioned State Department official, "we'll hit the cathedral in Hanoi on Christmas Eve." At week's end, however, the White House indicated that there would be at least a one-day bombing halt over Christmas...
Drastic Steps. Last week the venerable Shubert organization, after some acrimonious infighting and executive realignment, announced drastic steps to halt its own alarming case of deficit tremens. The 16 Broadway theaters owned by the Shubert chain lost $2,000,000 last season and are doing no better this season. In an effort to improve the efficiency of the theaters, which are in use for only some 16 hours per week, the organization is opening them up to other kinds of attractions besides plays. These have already included a one-man show by Singer Neil Diamond and an auto-show...
Grim holiday reminders lay all about the smoldering site. Before coming to a halt, the plane had caromed into a vacant lot full of Christmas trees and decorations, scattering them in every direction. When bathed in the glare of the rescue searchlights, the huge upright red, white and blue tail section loomed above the disaster site like an eerie tombstone. One resident, Helen Pristave, had been in her kitchen baking holiday cookies when she heard the crash; Congressman Collins was on his way back to Chicago to coordinate a Christmas party for 10,000 children...
...called the Chronicle of Current Events. The organ of the loosely knit Democratic Movement in Russia, the Chronicle provides accurate and exhaustive news of the arrests and trials of dissidents that are not reported in the official press. In spite of frequent efforts by the KGB (secret police) to halt the Chronicle's widespread underground circulation, 27 issues have appeared regularly since publication began in 1968. The KGB recently stepped up its drive to stamp out the journal. Scores of suspects have been rounded up and interrogated in an effort to identify the Chronicle's anonymous editors...
...have operated in a regulatory vacuum. No government believed that it had full jurisdiction over them. The SEC contends that a U.S. court can assert authority over foreign-headquartered funds for a variety of reasons, among them a principle in international law that a country can halt activity occurring outside its borders if it "causes an effect" within those borders. If the SEC can make that claim stick, the offshore funds' freedom from supervision may be over-too late to help IOS-fund shareholders who have suffered the Cornfeld and Vesco regimes. In early 1970, IOS-managed funds...