Word: halt
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Citing frustration with the United Nations' continued inability to halt the massacre in Bosnia, the head of the 10,000-troop U.N. peacekeeping force there resigned his commission. Lieut. General Francis Briquemont of Belgium said, "There is a fantastic gap between all these Security Council resolutions, the will to execute those resolutions and the means available to commanders in the field." Meanwhile, Warren Zimmerman, the last U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia before it disintegrated, resigned from the State Department in disagreement with U.S. policy toward Bosnia...
None of the players on the U.S. side of the game knows for sure whether Pyongyang will make the big concession and halt its drive for nuclear weapons. And if it does, the Clinton Administration is demanding more: the surrender by the North Koreans of any nuclear weapons they have hidden away. Even then the U.S. might not offer recognition in return unless Pyongyang is receptive to complaints about its human-rights abuses and sales of missiles to the Middle East. No matter how the intelligence estimates may vary, all the experts agree this is an agenda that will...
...afternoon, Zhirinovsky was told he had 24 hours to leave the country. He complied -- but not before promising to someday "return as President," presumably of Russia. His intended holiday finale was to have been an 18-day stay in Berlin. But the Zhirinovsky grand tour ground to a premature halt when German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel turned down his request for a visa, informing him that he was no longer welcome...
Such antics are also a reminder that Americans and Canadians are separated by more than a 5,527-mile border. The sniping is aimed at Canada's attempts to halt local dissemination of U.S. press reports about one of the most shocking sets of murders in Canadian history: the brutal torture and slaughter of two teenage girls allegedly by an attractive, seemingly perfect young couple. To ensure a fair trial for defendant Paul Teale, 29, who is also charged with 50 sexual assaults, a Canadian court has banned detailed reporting on the murder cases and on the earlier trial...
...other such budding comedy legends as Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Larry Gelbart wrote for TV comic Sid Caesar in his 1950s heyday, they rarely put anything on paper. Instead they sat in a room trying to top one another, shouting out situations and one-liners. Periodically Caesar would halt the schoolboy jockeying to read aloud what they had so far. "Read what?" Simon recalls asking. "We haven't written anything yet." But Caesar had culled the best of their ideas as he heard them and, by a wink or nod, had ensured they were recorded by the most junior...