Word: halts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis called for a United Nationspeacekeeping force, if needed, to halt the warbetween Iran and Iraq...
...paid a $2 million bribe to Sheik Fadlallah to halt acts of violence against American interests by his Hezbollah Party in Lebanon. The bribe, paid after an assassination attempt failed, halted the hostilities...
...investigation into the car bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut in 1983 came to a halt after a suspect died under too vigorous interrogation with a cattle prod...
...guerrillas to give up the fight and either head for the border or return home under a Nicaraguan amnesty program. Some of their leaders may even head the flight. In Washington, Rebel Leader Alfredo Cesar said last week that if U.S. aid dries up, contra officials may call a halt to all military actions, a decision they know would unsettle the Reagan Administration...
...Finance Officers Association, a national organization of public finance officials, is co-plaintiff in the Georgia suit. Fumes Mayor Young: "The Federal Government has been chipping away at our ability to finance necessary state and local governmental facilities for almost 20 years now. It is time to call a halt...