Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strikes in the North, a follow-up survey by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze proved the predictions correct; but it was another year before the bombing was stopped. RUSSIAN SNUB. American diplomats tried unsuccessfully in 1965 to secure Soviet assistance in carrying word of a planned bombing halt to North Viet Nam. The message announced a brief suspension of bombing, but warned that after the pause "it would be necessary to demonstrate more clearly than ever that the U.S. is determined not to accept aggression without reply." Ambassador Foy Kohler carried the message to Deputy Foreign Minister Nikolai Firyubin...
...disenchantment grew; by May 1967 he was advocating a political settlement in Viet Nam that would include non-Communist members of the National Liberation Front. A month after McNamara's resignation as Defense Secretary, President Johnson withdrew from the presidential race and ordered a partial bombing halt along the lines that McNamara had suggested earlier. TET AFTERMATH. In a secret report to President Johnson, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Wheeler presented a more pessimistic assessment of the effects of the 1968 Tet offensive than officials in Washington and Saigon had made available to the public. While echoing...
...under 55, will die of cancer this year in the U.S.; one out of every four Americans now living, some 52 million people, will contract the disease at some time during their lives. For many of those who do, the prognosis is poor. Doctors can often slow or even halt the progress of cancer by surgery, radiation and drugs; but, though researchers have uncovered many disparate clues (TIME, April 19), they do not yet understand the workings of most forms of the disease, let alone how to cure...
...York City and rehabilitation centers in Los Angeles and Houston, the Sight Switch -which costs $700 to $900-is remarkably easy to operate, even for the untrained. As one built-in safety feature, the computer is programmed to switch off the motor and bring the chair to a halt whenever one eye command for movement is not promptly followed by another...
...know?' " Rosenthal, an acclaimed correspondent and writer who has lived through some bitter power struggles as a Times editor, had plainly never been happier. "The most satisfying headline I've ever seen in the Times," he confided, "is the one that read MITCHELL SEEKS TO HALT SERIES ON VIETNAM BUT TIMES REFUSES...