Word: halt
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...uniforms-so that they can be easily seen against the sun-baked sand-the members of the State Department's Sinai Field Mission are operating monitoring stations in the Giddi and Mitla passes, scene of three wars in the past 20 years. The puny American presence could scarcely halt an armored column intent on starting a fourth war. Rather, since Egypt and Israel trust Washington more than they trust each other, the Americans are in the passes as hostages for peace...
Most important, Neto ordered his Cuban-led forces to halt their move south, where 5,000 South African regulars are stationed along Angola's 830-mile border with South West Africa (Namibia). The halt forestalled a clash that some feared might trigger an all-out black war to "liberate" white-ruled southern Africa. At the same time, M.P.L.A. Foreign Minister Jose Eduardo
Despite the discouraging reports, mercenary recruitment continues in full swing in Johannesburg, which will probably become the new staging center for the war if Mobutu makes good on his threat to halt mercenaries passing through Kinshasa. In New York, Roy Innis, head of the Congress of Racial Equality, said that his organization will send 300 black American "combat medics" to help the faltering U.S.-backed forces-the vanguard of a contingent of 1,000 men who will go to Angola "to establish military parity...
State Department officials insist that they have thus far found no ill effects from the radiation. But Pentagon scientists have recommended that the U.S. demand an immediate halt to the microwave bombardment. They have also proposed putting in alarms to let embassy staffers know when they are being irradiated so they can leave the building...
...residents passed a resolution asking the University to completely halt the present renovation plan, which they claim has no tenant input and is aimed at luxury housing for which they believe there will be no married student market...