Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...both men as traitors and suggested that the entire U.S. security-clearance procedure be reviewed. Harry Truman thought they should be shot. The U.S. intelligence community braced for an onslaught of congressional investigations. Meanwhile, back in Moscow, William Martin and Bernon Mitchell, their babbling press conference brought to a halt by a Soviet official who thought it was going on too long, began to sink into the limbo that the Soviet Union reserves for turncoats who have been milked of their last drop of propaganda value...
Education. "It is time for emergency federal action to halt the decline in American education." Needed...
...Lumumba's newspaper accused the North Africans of cuddling up to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in return for his promise to help them in the next U.N. debate on the Algerian war. Unmoved, the majority of the African "summiteers" agreed to a resolution urging the Congo to halt further incidents of violence against the U.N. forces, and pointedly recalling that U.N. troops had come "at the express request" of the Congolese government. The resolution expressly commended both Hammarskjold and Ralph Bunche (who last week headed home from the Congo declaring "I am a man of patience...
...battleground was the 83rd annual meeting of the American Bar Association. Drawn up on one side were the forces that want the U.S. to lead in establishing a workable system of international law, on the other a determined rear guard, that is ready to fight tooth-and-nail to halt a necessary practical step. Point at issue is the so-called Connally Reservation, by which the U.S. reserves the right to label any international dispute involving itself as a "domestic" issue and thus escape jurisdiction by the World Court at The Hague...
...school system has evaded court orders by "ingenious procrastination." Reason: loss of state aid if the schools integrate. But last month Houston's federal district court ordered first-grade integration this fall, and a grade a year thereafter. Last week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to halt integration while considering an appeal on the ruling, and Houston must desegregate. Should the state try to cut off aid. Houston might be forced to close its schools-more likely it would challenge the state's anti-integration laws in court...