Word: suspended
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...educator widely admired by both blacks and Miami's top white officials, Jones had tried to cover up the attempted misuse of funds. Reno quickly called a rare Saturday session of a grand jury to get him indicted; the school board called an equally unusual Sunday session to suspend him from his job. Jones was quickly convicted of theft and is awaiting sentence. Although his guilt was demonstrated, many Miami blacks saw the swift action against Jones as markedly different from Reno's failure to prosecute the physical crimes committed by white police...
...armored personnel carriers crept up in case they were needed to back up beleaguered police. One policeman was killed, while scores of both police and students were seriously injured. Hundreds of other protesters were arrested, many of them none too gently. The trouble subsided after student leaders agreed to suspend the demonstrations to give the government a chance to respond to their demands...
...part of his Administration's response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter asked the Senate in January to suspend deliberation on the SALT II Treaty. The President was-and still is -committed to ratifying the treaty. But he recognized that SALT II was doomed to rejection if the Administration forced the issue. Better wait, Carter figured, until outrage over the Afghanistan invasion has died down-and until the Executive Branch is in a stronger position to press for ratification. That might mean after the November elections, when either a re-elected Carter or his successor would probably...
SETTLEMENTS. Israel insists on the right of Jews to settle anywhere in the occupied territories, refusing even to suspend its policy of building new settlements until the May 26 target date. The Egyptians oppose the settlements, but feel Israel should negotiate this issue with an autonomous Palestinian council...
...fear of further uprisings, a U.S. State Department official speculates, that the King last May granted new provisional liberties to the people. He announced that for the period of a year, he would suspend his constitutional right to censorship pending a national referendum, (the first direct country-wide vote in two decades, and only the second in Nepal's history) to determine if the people like the existing partiless system. In the meantime, the government is doing some politicking of its own: at a recent pro-partiless rally, a panchayat minister declared that "The supreme objective of the multi-party...