Word: halt
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Turkey's decision to legalize poppy crops represents the worst setback yet in what has been an effective Nixon Administration crusade against the worldwide drug trade. Before Turkey originally agreed to halt its planting in return for a threeyear, $35 million aid program from the U.S., its annual crops followed a trail that led through the processing labs of Marseille ("the French connection") to the U.S. Turkish-grown heroin accounted for fully 80% of the total U.S. supply...
Alan Altshuler, 33, a farsighted urban planner, became Massachusetts' secretary of transportation and construction in 1971, after leading the effort to persuade Republican Governor Francis Sargent to halt all new expressway construction in the Boston area until a plan balancing environmental and social consequences, mass transit, and automobile use could be fully worked out. A Cornell graduate and former M.I.T. political scientist, Altshuler lobbied for three years for the transfer of interstate highway funds to urban areas for mass transit; last May the Bay State was granted the first such transfer -$670 million
...monolithic, pre-Vatican II days-even if it could be done. "There is a substantial element in the church that has accepted the changes but is dismayed by the never-ending process of eroding the traditions," he says. It is this erosion that Hitchcock is trying to halt. If it is not stopped, he warns, "Roman Catholicism has the potential to be just another Protestant denomination," splitting into "fundamentalism or vague liberalism." The conservatives' struggle may be long but, he believes, "the trend is not irreversible...
...Arabia's royal guard -Bedouin tribesmen wearing black bandoleers and armed with single-shot rifles and curved knives in gold sheaths -stood smartly at attention. A team of sweepers began brushing the red carpet for the last time When the blue and silver U.S. jet came to a halt and President Nixon emerged, King Faisal, 68, the man who controls a quarter of the world's oil reserves, walked forward with great dignity to meet his guest...
...biggest problem is the airport's vaunted Airtrans, a 13-mile computer-controlled system of tracked trams designed to transport passengers around the terminal perimeter. Because the system was apparently oversensitized, the cars grind to a dismaying halt if even a light bulb fails. The trains often skip stations or fail to open doors after stopping, while passengers inside bang on the windows to get out and those waiting to board bang on the glass to get in. Houston Industrialist Howard Purvis says that he was recently trapped aboard Airtrans "for two complete circuits. Finally, I got off close...