Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Bond would have been mortified by the scene. At London's Tilbury Docks one afternoon last week, three mud-spattered school buses squealed to a halt and disgorged 200 Russians, including 70 of the 105 Soviet officials named as spies by the British government and ordered to leave the country (15 were out of Britain when the expulsion orders came, and 20 have since left by other means). It was hardly a classy exit. For two hours in the autumn fog, glum parents and children clutching Teddy bears waited on the Thames pier while the creaking, 35-year...
NEEDLESS PROJECTS. Starting with its battle against the Cross-Florida Barge Canal, which President Nixon himself stopped (TIME, Feb. 1), E.D.F. has brought seven major suits against federal construction projects. Most of them are designed to halt dams proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As the environmental lawyers and their scientific advisers see it, none of the projects are needed for water control, agriculture or any other practical purpose-and all would destroy valuable ecological balances. So far, the courts have tended to agree. Last February a federal court enjoined the Army Engineers from damming the Cossatot River...
...With the ostentatious Kennedy memorial in Washington [Sept. 20] blighting the hallowed Lincoln and Jefferson monuments, let's call a halt to this pharaoh-like trend. With L.B.J.'s marble spread in Texas, and that 1,500-ft. spire Nixon is probably planning for San Clemente, this self-memorialization indulgence is an ominous one. In our democracy, historic perspective delegates memorialization to posterity, not to the whims and vanities of self-aggrandizement...
...walkout of longshoremen on the East and Gulf coasts, which, together with the three-month-old strike of West Coast dockers, closed down virtually all U.S. deep-sea ports for the first time in history. In addition, a strike of miners brought practically all soft coal production to a halt. And the possibility of a crippling work stoppage hung over the nation's railroads. The disruptions are both a rebuke and a challenge by labor to President Nixon's new economic policies aimed at holding the line on prices and wages...
...Communist Party headquarters in Peking, where lights were burning late into the night and many black sedans were parked outside. At the same time, the top military leaders dropped out of sight; as of last week, only one had reappeared. Air traffic over the mainland came to a near halt, and Communist Chinese air force interceptors did not even rise, as usual, to shadow Nationalist fighter patrols over the Taiwan Strait. Military units were put on some sort of alert, and there were reports of furloughs being canceled, although soldiers on leave appeared as usual in Peking...