Word: letup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the Reyes Pruneda gangsters are believed to be hiding in the hill country not far from Monterrey. Nonetheless there is little sign of a letup in the killings. Just eight weeks ago, for instance, a Mexican customs official seized a trailer van full of household appliances and color television sets that had been stolen in the U.S. and were being smuggled into Mexico-a lucrative return cargo for the men who smuggle drugs the other way. The customs official made the mistake of allowing the local newspaper to run his photograph. Two days later he was machine-gunned...
...present American effort is in bombing, though Nixon was careful to note at his press conference last week that South Viet Nam's air force is now flying 40% of its tactical air sorties over the South. Even so, Nixon insisted that there would be no letup in bombing North Viet Nam or in mining its harbors without a settlement of the war. Speaking of his dealing with Communist leaders, he said: "I find that making a bargain with them is not easy. You get something from them only when you have something they want to get from...
...Saigon, the U.S. command grimly foresaw "an all-out effort" that could run through the monsoon season that usually begins later this month -possibly on a reduced scale-and then be stepped up well before the U.S. elections and continue on into the new year. Certainly there was no letup in the Communist attacks, which by now were taking on a grimly familiar pattern. Each time the thinly spread South Vietnamese forces shifted troops from one location to bolster defenses in another, a weak spot was exposed-and the North Vietnamese pounced...
Although Crow offers no letup in the agony and gore, it should win Hughes a new and wider following. In it he parcels out human history and legend in a succession of charnel-house episodes. The Garden of Eden, Oedipus, St. George, all our prototypes of beauty, heroism and love, are reduced to so much pulsing, thrashing sinew, murderously intent on survival. A harsh and one-sided view, to be sure, yet difficult to deny. The headlines are on its side. Hughes is too cunning a craftsman to try to convey his vision in headlines or rant of any kind...
...seemed unlikely, though, that plans for three more trials of Russian Jews for "anti-Soviet propaganda" would be abandoned. Any such letup in the campaign to coerce Jews seeking to go to Israel would surely enrage Russia's Arab allies in the Middle East. More important, it might encourage hopes of emigration among the U.S.S.R.'s other restless minorities, such as the Lithuanians, Ukrainians and Central Asians, who are expected soon to outnumber Russians in total population...