Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps as one concession to his convalescence, he did not travel in his usual speedy Citroen limousine; instead, he decided on a two-car diesel train, which could move him in greater comfort to the rural reaches of France's north. At his first scheduled stop, Soissons, a mighty cheer went up as he stepped before the throng at the Hotel de Ville. He knew as well as they that the Picardy farmers had been protesting angrily against low agricultural prices, so he permitted himself a moment of what for him was consider able levity. Apologizing for having canceled...
...Russian language as a compulsory subject in schools and closing the city's Russian bookstores, Rumanians and Soviet ideologues exchange insults. When Radio Moscow called Rumania "intentionally perverse" in its new economic relations with non-Communist countries, Radio Bucharest replied acidly: "Is it necessary for a country to stop developing its own resources in order to get a certificate of good behavior in the socialist camp...
...Balboa High School by some 200 Panamanian students "appears to have been very carefully prepared and not a spontaneous movement," that Panama's President Roberto F. Chiari may well have known about it in advance and that, in any event, the Panamanian government did absolutely nothing to stop the subsequent rioting. For four days, from Jan. 9 to 13, said the committee, Panama's peace-keeping National Guard was curiously disarmed and "purposely kept away" from the trouble spots. Said the committee: "There was no evidence before us that any attempts were made by the authorities...
...Such noble concepts as "right to counsel, fair trial, and due process" will become meaningless, warned New York State Chief Judge Charles S. Desmond last week, unless more lawyers are willing to represent criminal defendants. Addressing Boston University's graduating law class, he called on law schools to stop pointing students "at the two admired goals of Wall Street law practice and clerkships to appellate judges." He urged that the schools instead expand their criminal courses and Legal Aid activities to give "students at least a smell of real criminal court work...
...Framingham, Mass., says: "Cigarette smoking triggers a great amount of coronary disease. If we could abolish smoking, we could reduce the deaths from coronary disease in Framingham by 40%. The risk is related to how much you smoke, but not to how long you have smoked. Those who stop smoking have as good a chance of escaping heart disease as nonsmokers...