Word: halts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Supporters of the plank argued that it left several options open to a future President, rather than unwisely committing him in advance to a specific course of action. Moreover, warned Missouri's Governor Warren Hearnes, an unconditional bombing halt could endanger U.S. servicemen. Boggs cited a statement by U.S. Viet Nam Commander Creighton Abrams to the effect that a bombing halt would mean a fivefold increase in enemy strength in the area of the Demilitarized Zone within two weeks. Many military experts consider Abrams' estimate an exaggeration...
When Selective Service announced last February that it would no longer defer most graduate students, academe responded with alarm. Harvard President Nathan Pusey complained that first-year classes this fall would contain only "the lame, the halt, the blind and the female." The Council of Graduate Schools predicted that most such classes would be slashed in half. Now most graduate school deans concede that their anguish was unwarranted, or at least premature. Fall enrollment will be surprisingly close to normal...
...likely to approve. During a daylong hassle, Sorensen clashed repeatedly with McCarthy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin and Pierre Salinger, a McGovern aide. The result was a plank incorporating many ideas set forth by Ted Kennedy in the speech he gave last week at Worcester, Mass. It demands an immediate bombing halt (which the Administration opposes), a cutdown in offensive operations by the U.S. and a phased withdrawal of all foreign troops; but it makes no mention of one of the most contentious issues-a coalition government. Though a floor fight over the plank was virtually certain, the doves' hopes...
...political ends that inspired it. It will not be easy. At best, the invasion was too clumsy and too late to rescue a vacillating policy. At worst, it may prove a disaster destroying forever Moscow's claim to leadership in the Communist world. It may temporarily halt the trend toward more freedom in Eastern Europe and shore up Russia's buffer against the outside world for a little longer. But ultimately, the invasion can only serve to encourage the strong forces of nationalism and liberalization that are at work throughout the former Soviet empire...
...Yalta Conference in 1945, Roosevelt and Churchill acceded to Stalin's demand that Czechoslovakia fall into his sphere of influence after the war. As a result, when General George Patton's tanks prepared to liberate Prague in the war's closing days, orders came from Allied headquarters to halt. The Russians got the honor of freeing the capital. In their wake came cadres of Czechoslovak Communists who had spent the war in Moscow. Aided by the presence of the Soviet army, the Communists infiltrated the government bureaucracy and went to work propagandizing the Czechoslovak people. In the 1946 elections...