Word: halts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though a deteriorating balance-of-trade position forced France to halt its bullion purchases last fall, the De Gaulle government has found other ways to keep up its pressure on the dollar. This month, in an interview with Paris' Le Monde, French Finance Minister Michel Debre obliquely suggested that one possible way to assure more international liquidity is to raise the official world price of gold, which has been fixed at $35 an ounce since 1934. Debre's remarks, in which he neglected to point out that nothing has aggravated the liquidity problem more than France...
...group of 462 Yale University faculty members mailed a letter Saturday to President Johnson urging an "unconditional halt" to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. The signers did not claim to represent the University...
...many areas, the Johnson initiative sounded as powerful as ever. The President rattled off proposals to reorganize existing programs, extend Social Security, reduce pollution control firearms, halt invasions of privacy, modernize the draft and fight crime. But Johnson left the two great domestic issues before the Congress--civil rights and the War on Poverty--disturbingly grey, despite brave talk of continuing progress. Negro leaders in particular must have bristled at hearing fair housing plugged into the address directly following "regional airsheds...
...general grinds to a halt. Two enlisted men enter, paint him a neutral olive drab and carry him off to the Pentagon, where he will replace a computer...
...against the Viet Cong. "Since the military took power," said one delegate, "we have seen only corruption at the local and central levels because everyone is appointed. This is an ideological war. People only like men they have elected. This means democracy, and democracy means a quicker halt...