Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIEM. The coup against Diem was planned with the knowledge of Dean Rusk and Averell Harriman at the State Department, Robert S. McNamara and Roswell Gilpatric at the Defense Department and the late Edward R. Murrow at the U.S. Information Agency. The U.S. hoped Diem's overthrow would halt the domestic turmoil that had weakened South Viet Nam. But the CIA's director, John A. McCone, vigorously opposed the overthrow of Diem on the reasoning that none of the generals enlisted in the coup would be half as effective a leader as the man they wanted to bring...
Despite the disturbing implications of last week's election, Italy is not on the verge of turning Communist, although, through their heavy control of labor unions, the Communists have the capacity to bring all Italy to a halt (as they have demonstrated through innumerable strikes). Berlinguer is too much the realist to push for real power now. He aims first of all for a "consultative" share in policymaking at the parliamentary level, rather than a partnership in a formal coalition...
...first years as President, Juan Perón depleted Argentina's once rich treasury to gain support among the legions of descamisados (the shirtless ones), who soon came to expect generous social-welfare spending by the government. Now that tradition of bounty has come to a screeching halt and with it, in the opinion of many observers, the sway of the old-line Peronists who served with el Líder in the years of glory. Taking their place are officials loyal to Argentina's Minister of Social Welfare José López Rega, the shadowy confidant...
...growing wave of protest over the rising cost of malpractice insurance, thousands of physicians in New York's nine most heavily populated counties decided to dramatize their demands by refusing to perform any but emergency services. Their action slowed admissions and operations in many hospitals to a near halt, inconvenienced thousands of patients who needed elective surgery and other nonemergency treatment, and further eroded the esteem in which Americans have traditionally held their physicians...
Lift License. Elsewhere, protests over malpractice problems have intensified. Doctors at St. Vincent Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, were prevented from operating when anaesthesiologists refused to take nonemergency cases. Patients in New York were apprehensive about a possible halt in medical treatment. Doctors in nine of the state's counties objected to a new state law aimed at solving their insurance problems and picketed in New York City to express their distress. Many physicians threatened to withhold all but emergency services beginning this week, despite the threats by at least one legislator of action to lift the licenses of those...