Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...session of the 27th United Nations General Assembly last week. Security was so tight at the U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters that delegates from the 132 member nations had to flash passes with photographs to enter the assembly hall. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim introduced a resolution calling for a halt in "terrorism and other forms of violence which endanger or take innocent human lives." Considerably qualified and softened to placate Arab na tions, the resolution was shunted to the General Assembly's legal committee for further study...
Yesterday's announcement came as a result of a meeting between the Cambridge legislative delegation: Alan Altshuler, secretary of Transportation: and representatives of Humans Against Loud Trucks (HALT), a local citizens group...
...meeting, Mahoney and the two representatives from HALT, David Clem and Richard Thoreson, presented their proposal to Altshuler. According to Mahoney, Altshuler endorsed the plan but said the DPW would have to make the final decision...
...weeks ago HALT dramatized their opposition to the trucks by staging a rally on Prospect St. During the rally, a number of local residents crowded the streets and briefly blocked a number of trucks' progress...
...HALT's rally culminated over two years of organizing. Their demonstration rally was attended by political-candidates as well as local elected officials...