Word: halts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...related development, graduate students today sent Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence a letter protesting his decision to halt Brinkley's tenure review, said Tom Underwood, a fourth-year history graduate student and an organizer of the campaign to send the letter...
...House measure would give the president 30 days to deploy military equipment and personnel to halt smugglers at the borders and arrest them when in hot pursuit. Within 45 days, the chief executive would be required substantially to halt smuggler boats and planes from crossing U.S. borders...
...faculty member said that Spence's decisionto halt Brinkley's review after the luke-warmdepartment approval was due to the dean's concernthat with such a weak recommendation a youngscholar would not successfully complete the tenureprocess...
...zeal to win this confrontation, the House approved a provision requiring the President to deploy, within 30 days after the law takes effect, "armed forces sufficient to halt the unlawful penetration of U.S. borders by aircraft and vessels carrying narcotics." The proposal, yet to be considered by the Senate, allows soldiers to arrest drug smugglers captured in "hot pursuit" and, with blithe unrealism, orders the President to "substantially halt" drug trafficking within 45 days of military deployment...
While the Administration was pondering tactics, the Europeans and Japanese finally took action against South Africa after months of discussion. The twelve foreign ministers of the European Community, meeting last week in Brussels, voted to ban new investments and halt the import of South African iron and steel and Krugerrands, as proposed at a summit in the Hague three months ago. But the foreign ministers rejected the most serious proposal of all, a ban on the import of South African coal, as a result of strenuous opposition from the West German government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl. That decision effectively reduced...