Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instrument landing approach. The Federal Aviation Agency's Miami Traffic Control Center notifies Havana of the skyjacking. An official of the Swiss embassy in Washington-which handles U.S. diplomatic contacts with Fidel Castro's Cuba-fills in the blanks on a prepared form asking the Cubans for prompt release of the aircraft and its passengers. U.S. air carriers in Miami have even issued bilingual cards to enable pilots to communicate with non-English-speaking skyjackers (Nos iremos a Cuba como usted indica-"Proceeding to Cuba as directed...
...Good Enough. New York officials awoke in a hurry. Mayor John Lindsay ordered a prompt investigation. Hurrying home from a European vacation, Police Commissioner Howard Leary assembled his officers and said: "For your men to patrol 95% of the time or 98% of the time is not good enough for me." At a news conference, he added, "I am personally embarrassed, and the department is embarrassed...
THEN THERE are the Germans. The franc was not the only currency being attacked by speculation; the currencies of many other nations--particularly of the pound--were placed under strain by the desire to convert into marks. That pressure could have been relieved by a prompt revaluation of the mark, but the Germans played coy with the money markets, issuing occasional pronouncements to the general effect that everyone should ignore the speculation and it would finally go away. They knew it was costing the French $800 million in gold per day to maintain the parity of the franc--and they...
...nation that may rate as the high point of his career, the President announced: "I have now ordered that all air, naval and artillery bombardment of North Viet Nam cease," effective twelve hours after he spoke. "What we now expect-what we have a right to expect-are prompt, productive, serious and intensive negotiations." When those negotiations resume in Paris this week, the morning after the U.S. elections, representatives of both the Saigon government and the Viet Cong are expected to take part-though Johnson emphasized that the Communists' participation "in no way involves" U.S. recognition of the Viet...
This adds to the urgency of reaching a prompt and honorable end to the conflict. As I said in my nationwide Vietnam address: "I owe it to this nation to bring our men and resources in Vietnam back to America where we need them so badly and to be sure to put first things first in the future...