Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientists--led by two Harvard professors--is trying to convince President Johnson to abandon the project. Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, and Dr. John T. Edsall, professor of Biological Chemistry, have collected the signatures of over 5000 scientists in support of a letter to Johnson asking him to stop using these weapons in Vietnam, and to "categorically declare the intention of the U.S. to refrain from initiating the use" of them in the future...
...Meselson and Edsall are not leading a protest of scientists who worked on the weapon and now want it responsibly suppressed. They are men who feel they understand what the weapon would be like, and they want to stop this Manhattan Project before it progresses...
...move to New Haven and become a "co-ordinate college." Just like us. Of course the alliteration should be a clue that the may is to become will. Vassar President Simpson's acceptance of Yale's invitation to study the plan was demur enough. But he couldn't stop an alliterative joy -- "modern mission," "historic home," "properly preserved," "prodigious problems" -- from bubbling through his statement...
...North, but precisely on target. As for any prolonged bombing pause to alter that balance, Secretary of State Rusk firmly ruled it out without some sort of reciprocal gesture on Hanoi's part. "We have told them many times that if they will tell us what they will stop doing, we will consider stopping the bombing," he said. "We can't stop just half the war. They've got to stop their half...
...great disappointments of the bombing has been its failure to stop the flow of men from the North. "Infiltration continues," said Brown. In fact, it has risen from 4,500 men a month last year to 7,000 at present. Still, military men believe that the infiltration rate would probably be much higher without the bombings. Their value was dramatically illustrated two weeks ago when, according to U.S. officers in Saigon, American planes sighted a 600-man North Vietnamese battalion moving through Mu Gia Pass, one of the prime portals to the South. The planes swooped in and virtually wiped...