Word: halted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...screeched to a halt and some Iranian air force officers, along with a harried-looking man, hurried into the compound. Looking worried, he held a bullhorn to his mouth and shouted: "I am a representative of [Prime Minister Mehdi] Bazargan. Don't shoot. Orders from Khomeini." His bullhorn was not working. Almost nobody heard him, but he went on shouting: "This shooting is a conspiracy against Khomeini. Stop shooting. For the honor of the country, please stop...
...York Blood Center, too, says that it wants to phase out the imports. But a total halt may take five years or longer. Sooner or later, though, Americans will have to learn that Euroblood, like Middle Eastern oil, is not an inexhaustible resource. Says Dr. Irene Roeckel, director of a blood bank in Lexington, Ky.: "The impact of Euroblood is to cover the national shame of not enough Americans lying down and donating blood...
...Muhammad, 50, a surgeon, spent part of his time operating, part on the telephone attempting to reach his good friend Shahpour Bakhtiar in an effort to halt the shooting. Muhammad was furious at the extent and kinds of injuries he had been treating. "If they do not stop this," he predicted, "everyone will be Communist. We have been fighting the Communists for 20 years. Now all of us in my profession are nationalist, independent and pro-Khomeini. They must deal with...
...electorate that has at times flared into violence. Picketing truck drivers were assaulted at a chocolate factory in Birmingham last week by a phalanx of umbrella-wielding female workers. At an oil depot in Aberdeen, a striker was accidentally run over and killed when a truck driver refused to halt for pickets...
...decisive onslaught against Phnom-Penh was in sharp contrast to a round of skirmishing centered in the Parrot's Beak border area a year ago. In that fighting, Vietnamese forces attempted to halt Khmer Rouge raids across the border. But the Vietnamese were battered by the tough Khmer. Vietnamese armor, which was sent to harass the Khmer, ran out of gas and had to be rescued by Vietnamese airmen flying captured American planes...