Word: halte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chomsky said he filed the case because "these are illegal activities and they (the defendants) should not be allowed to get away with them." He added that he hoped his case would "focus attention on it (illegal wiretapping) and possibly bring it to a halt...
...motorcade wound through the dusty town of Maria Elena in Chile's mountainous north, the Cuban Premier spied a gymnasium housing a basketball court. He ordered the caravan to a screeching halt, recruited a government official, three carabineros and five Chil ean newsmen, then sprang onto the court - combat boots, green fatigues and all - for a pickup game...
Tale out of School. During the Six-Day War, the book reveals, Dayan wanted the advancing Israeli forces to halt at the Mitla Pass or at Jidi in the Sinai. He opposed their going as far as the Suez Canal because, he argued, the waterway was essential to Egyptian prestige, and the war could never truly end with Israeli forces dug in on its bank. The army, however, reached the banks of the canal before Dayan's orders could effectively stop it. During the 1969-70 "war of attrition," he often visited the Israeli fortifications on the canal, which...
...exactly the smoothest of arrivals. When the Air France 707 bearing the Chinese delegation to the United Nations came to a halt at John F. Kennedy Airport last week, no one could find a key to the door of the loading platform, and the door had to be taken off its hinges before Peking's men could disembark. Then the loudspeaker system went on the blink just as Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua uttered the first words of his arrival speech. Chiao manfully went ahead anyway, and the words were duly recorded for television: "The people...
They do not have total support. The city council voted in September to halt lagoon operations if it were found that Libby could not control odors. But the mayor, realizing that Libby's 300 jobs are a major source of Hartford's income, vetoed the council's action. So now S.M.E.L.L.S. has taken its case directly to the state's two U.S. Senators and to the state department of natural resources...