Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seek and Destroy. Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees-the man responsible for maintaining peace in the province -called the murders "the worst single sectarian killing in Ulster history." Rees was immediately pushed to take action to halt the terrorism and restore confidence in the government's ability to maintain security. Glen Barr, a spokesman for the Ulster Defense Association, warned that Protestant paramilitary groups are under "intense pressure" from the rank and file to go on an all-out military offensive against...
Harvard University police have begun a serious effort to halt parking violations, Captain Jeff Kahn of the Harvard Police said yesterday. He said the police are taking more vigorous action because of complaints by drivers who have paid for parking but find their spaces taken by unauthorized cars...
...South Armagh Battalion hijacked and blew up a freight train from Dublin to Belfast just after it crossed the border into Ulster. No one was killed, but the explosion caused $400,000 worth of damage. A major catastrophe was barely averted when a southbound passenger train screeched to a halt just before colliding with the destroyed freight cars. Moreover, in what may mean even more intense sectarian violence in the future, County Armagh is emerging as the center of breakaway I.R.A. factions. These extremist groups reject the willingness of some Provo leaders to discuss with Britain a political solution...
...growing number of Congressmen fear that U.S. involvement in Angola may be the first step toward another Viet Nam-style quagmire. Declared California Democrat John Tunney, leader of the Senate's fight to halt the aid though not noted for his expertise in foreign affairs: "For the past 30 years, we have given the military adventurists what they wanted and they have gone everywhere and done everything, getting us involved in everybody else's business from Asia to Latin America and now, so it seems, Africa." Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois complained that the U.S. was "getting...
...from trying to discredit or disrupt the organizations unless there was no other way to eliminate "an immediate risk to human life." Under the draft guidelines, the FBI would have to inform the Attorney General of all domestic security probes; in turn, he would be required to halt any investigation that failed to meet the written standards...