Word: moratorium
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...city itself has a further rationalization for inertia. Cambridge planners say with a certain amount of truth that they cannot plan re-development in the area to the east of Central Sq. until they know exactly where the proposed Inner Belt highway will go. This is a reasonable enough moratorium, since it involves state as well as local lethargy. However, because of a system of priorities voted in the city council, almost no urban renewal can take place in the whole of Cambridge until the inner belt goes through. Thus, while people in the east of Cambridge neglect their homes...
Once more the call for deconversion of the Houses and a moratorium on the expansion of the College has sounded. Both the sounders (the House Masters) and the reasons (overcrowding) have become familiar to the weary residents of Cambridge during the last seven years. Yet the familiarity of the trumpet's notes has neither diminished the passion that they always arouse nor explained to the layman the significance of the most prolonged controversy in President Pusey's tenure...
...this they have had some success. For 27 months, while the Soviets dragged out the nuclear test-ban talks at Geneva, the U.S. has refrained from nuclear testing without any guarantee that the U.S.S.R. was doing the same. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission warned that a continued unpoliced moratorium presents "risks to free world supremacy in nuclear weapons...
...Ever since 1951, Red China's admission to the U.N. has been stopped by a General Assembly vote in favor of a moratorium on any discussion of whether the mainland Communists or the Formosa Nationalists properly represent the state and people of China. Although U.S. efforts to maintain the moratorium have steadily lost support (the last vote, on Oct. 8, 1960, was 42 to 32, with 22 abstentions), some State Department experts believe that the closure on debate can be indefinitely maintained. Next time the issue is raised, they argue, the U.S. delegation might well pick...
...When and if the General Assembly votes to end the moratorium, it would then debate and decide whether the Communists or the Nationalists are entitled to China's Assembly seat. On this issue, the U.S. would gain support from such countries as Iceland and Ireland, which have voted against the moratorium as an attempt to stifle debate, but which oppose U.N. membership for the Red Chinese...