Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets obviously felt otherwise. Both U.S. and Western European intelligence networks picked up signs of Russian military activity: mobilization ordered for two mechanized divisions near the Black Sea and a halt in Soviet military transport flights to Egypt and Syria. The cutoff in the flights carrying military supplies suggested that the giant Soviet planes might have been diverted home for troop movements. Intelligence experts feared that the Russian units might be sent in-at Sadat's urgent request-to help rescue the beleaguered Egyptian Third Army...
...Alexandria, Tartus and Latakia aboard 18 Russian ships. Only when it appeared that the Israelis were on the verge of encircling and eliminating the Egyptian Third Army-and, among other things, capturing a vast store of modern Soviet weaponry-did Moscow change its line and call for a halt to the fighting...
Efforts were made by Agnew's attorneys to halt the Baltimore grand jury investigation of the former vice president's financial affairs...
Besides dampening the nightly revelry of Ramadan, the war has affected Cairo in other ways. Street life comes to a halt during the infrequent alerts, as the people duck into air-raid shelters. Thanks to the war, Cairenes are paying more for food and for bus and train fares, driving their cars less because of gasoline rationing, and eating less meat. With the opening of Cairo's universities delayed, many of the 130,000 students have entered the army or the civil defense force. Crowds form in front of the military hospital on Roda Island in the Nile River...
...first stage, to be followed by the decisive blow to the head and heart. Second, no man in his right senses believes that if the massive thrust of Egyptian and Syrian tanks on October 6 were to have succeeded in its objects, they would have come to a halt on the sand near the '67 boundaries, stepped on the brakes with a loud, victorious screech and said, "Here we stop." What nonsense! The very massiveness of the forces engaged proves that in October 1973 they decided on a total assault on Israel...