Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Figure it out. They have. And they are rushing their stuff in just as hard as we are." The U.S. is doing its best to interdict Communist supplies. While maintaining its halt to air and naval attacks above the 20th parallel, American bombers are hitting the supply routes below the 20th at a near-record pace. Oct. 31, the Hanoi had hoped the agreement would be signed, 13 B-52 missions bombed the coastal routes south of Vinh...
...Chilenos were considerably more interested in frontpage newspaper articles about a transvestite who had burned down one of Santiago's best-known brothels than they were in pressing economic and social issues. One recent-and typical -street brawl between anti-Allende demonstrators and police came to an abrupt halt when an abundantly curved girl walked by. The demonstrators broke into spontaneous applause, while the carabineros beat their nightsticks on their plastic shields in approval. After the girl disappeared around a corner, the fighting resumed...
...will best hold Nixon's strongman tendencies in check. So long as our demonstrations can be brushed aside in citizen's minds with the tag of "cynical student rebellion," Nixon has little to worry about. Fortunately, his victory cannot destroy the work of public-interest lobbyists. Nor can it halt either the effects of grass-roots community organizing or the appeal of anti-administration campaigns focused on undisguisable conditions: inflation, racism, inequitable taxes, military overextension and waste, violations of civil liberties, poor housing, corporation influence and government corruption. Working to change these conditions most effectively demonstrates the poverty of Nixon...
...referendum on the state ballot would halt an expenditure of nearly $5 million in state funds. Although Federal funds of $15.5 million have already been approved, they are contingent on the state's appropriation...
...candidate. It was, after all, the President who had been wheeling and dealing with the Communist bosses in Peking and Moscow and had kept Henry Kissinger in constant motion on the road to work a settlement. Then, last week, whatever momentum McGovern may have been gathering came to a halt again when the White House was finally able to announce that peace-real peace-is just around the corner...