Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he might seek South Vietnamese approval for a full halt to U.S. bombing of the North. Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy hinted that a bombing pause would indeed be a key issue at Hawaii. Cyrus Vance, No. 2 man on the Paris negotiating team, emphasized the recent lull in fighting around Saigon, feeding speculation that it might prove to be the reciprocal gesture the U.S. has long demanded from Hanoi...
Though their placards and protests disappeared with June's diplomas, student radicals have hardly let the summertime lull slow their efforts to keep U.S. universities up against the wall. In Chicago, young faculty members and graduate students have founded a New University Conference, postgraduate big brother of the Students for a Democratic Society...
Loss of Confidence. Adding to the rising unease is a slack in the four-year economic boom that, beginning in 1962, thrust Spain into the 20th century world of rapidly rising industrial wages new cars and washing machines, The lull has created unemployment and put a brake on wage increases. Above , it has cost the government the confidence of many businessmen who had always staunchly supported Franco. The government gives the impression of not knowing quite what to do about either the economy or the popular unrest, and this impression is strengthened by the fact that Franco seems to spend...
Then the Ill Wind died down and disappeared. In the lull the crowd which had been held together by the music, shattered, like mercury, into a hundred little globulets...
...there was more talk about peace talks than actual progress toward them. And on the battlefields of South Viet Nam, there was more preparation for heavy fighting than major action. Most battle contacts were limited to skirmishes scattered throughout the countryside, but few allied military men expected the comparative lull to last. One reason was a man who figured prominently in the week's news: Colonel Pham Van Thanh, a Viet Cong since 1945, who crossed lines to become the highest ranking defector of the war. Thanh brought with him the warning that the Communists were about to attempt...