Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rome and got into the back seat of his blue Fiat 130. His police driver and his bodyguard sat in front. An Alfa Romeo, carrying three plainclothes policemen, followed closely behind. About half a mile from Moro's home, a white Fiat station wagon came to an abrupt halt at a corner stop sign, forcing Moro's driver to brake sharply. The police escort car slammed into the rear of Moro's vehicle. Then two masked men jumped out of the white Fiat, opening fire on Moro's driver and bodyguard, killing them where they...
...rights are hardly a novelty between the military and the companies that make the weapons. But a dispute pitting the Navy against the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. reached an unusually high pitch last week. After months of haggling, the company told the Navy that it will halt work in April on a $1.4 billion contract to build 18 nuclear attack submarines unless Washington ponies up an additional $544 million to pay the company for cost overruns. A shutdown would throw 14,000 employees out of work at the company's shipyards in Groton, Conn...
...Defense Minister Weizman got word that Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon had ordered work started on two new settlements on the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River in defiance of Weizman's order that they be stopped. In a heated call to Jerusalem, Weizman pleaded with Begin to halt work on the settlements until after the Premier's own Washington trip. "If only one tractor moves, I will fly back tomorrow and you can have my resignation the next day," he said. Begin agreed-but became enraged when the story was leaked to the press...
...treason last June. President Carter broke a Washington policy of not commenting on spy charges* and said publicly what the Soviets had already been told privately: Shcharansky, Carter announced, "has never had any sort of relationship to our knowledge with the CIA." The Administration had hoped that this might halt the Soviet momentum toward a Shcharansky trial, but it has not been successful; the trial is expected to begin soon-after the Belgrade conference on human rights closes...
...sharp, you feel yourself beginning to laugh even before the line is finished. That never happens in the Leverett production. Although director Tim Garry has paced the show far too fast--with the exception of the physical business called for in the script, where things grind to a dead halt--he has not given the actors any clues about proper emphasis. The wistful and the exuberant sound alike, and the unvarying rhythm grows monotonous...