Word: halts
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Hopefully, the British Laborites can exert sufficient influence in their government to halt England's summer tests temporarily. Although British and American legislators cannot, on their own, negotiate any permanent end to the tests, nor do more than try to limit the tests to those of purely tactical weapons, their discussions with the Russians can be important. The talks would serve to probe Communist intentions, while postponing further activity on either side of the Iron Curtain...
Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's barefaced drive to re-elect himself President of Colombia piled up enough opposition last week to bring it to a shaky halt. Joined to thwart the strongman's second-term ambitions, the Roman Catholic Church under Crisanto Cardinal Luque, the newly united Liberal and Conservative Parties and the belligerent university students took direct action. Caught by surprise, the President hesitated. Then he moved what he said were 35,000 troops into Bogotá to regain control...
...jeeploads of Bedouin Tommy-gunners. On the road the convoy met the rampaging Bedouins, who went wild with cheers, firing in the air and screaming: "Down with Abu Nuwar! Down with the Communists!" One wild-eyed Bedouin officer charged toward Abu Nuwar with rifle ready. Hussein ordered him to halt, thus saved the cowering Abu Nuwar's life...
Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell offered a motion to "postpone" the British test while Britain tried to get international agreement to halt all H-bomb tests. Leftist Richard Grossman, one of Labor's most brilliant and least predictable figures, urged renunciation not only of the H-bomb but of all nuclear weapons. George Brown, Labor's current defense spokesman, had endorsed the test only a fortnight before. "We must be able to show any aggressor that we have the bomb. The only way to do this is to show that you have successfully tried...
...Spelled out before a meeting of the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee in London the new U.S. plan aimed at limiting and eventually halting H-bomb construction. Gist of the plan: the U.S., Britain and Russia, having first agreed on an "effective inspection plan," should 1) halt production of fissionable material for weapons purposes on April 1, 1958, or as soon as possible thereafter upon the ratification of the necessary agreements; and 2) thereafter divert all such nuclear production to peaceful purposes. Net effect of the plan: while allowing the big powers to hang on to nuclear weapons stockpiled before...