Word: averted
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...feels like the Falklands. During the weeks it took London's strike force to reach the South Atlantic in 1982, a flurry of diplomatic activity failed to avert war. Like George Bush in the current crisis, Britain's Margaret Thatcher refused to reward Argentina's aggression with a face-saving compromise, and Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri compounded his original miscalculation by insisting that "the British won't fight...
There was suddenly an enormous amount of talking -- peace talk, settlement talk, negotiation talk -- but most of it was just that, talk. Saddam Hussein, looking a little sweatier, issued a flurry of offers to negotiate, but his antics seemed intended mainly to avert a military showdown. A clutch of mediators led by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar set off on peacemaking missions, yet none carried much promise of success. In Washington, President Bush toned down his rhetoric and turned his attention to diplomacy, but said bluntly that he had no immediate hope for "fruitful negotiations." Despite...
...quick military victory. If Saddam's seizure of U.S. diplomats last week is any guide, Iraq is capable of an action so provocative that the U.S. would be forced to retaliate. But war is never as quick, clean or painless as the planners say. Patience and determination might still avert the increasingly inevitable tragedy. Those qualities are in alarmingly short supply...
...Kerouac -- is in my Genet class," White says breathlessly. On the way home, he stops off at a student's house to pick up a copy of Genet's The Screens. "Isn't he cute," White says of the student when he returns to the car. "I have to avert my eyes when I talk to him or I lose my concentration. 'I'm straight; I hope you don't find that repellent,' he said to me the other day. Wasn't that cute? 'You're doing fine,' I told him. 'Stay just...
Nelson Mandela's grand and glorious reception in New York City came about only after some backstage scrambling. The problem? To avert major protests by Jewish organizations upset at Mandela's tendency to equate the black South African struggle with that of Palestinians and at his warm words for Arafat. Before the scheduled visit, Harry Belafonte and Roger Wilkins, officials of the Mandela welcome committee, arranged for Jewish leaders to meet with Mandela in Geneva. Though he succeeded in mollifying some of them by acknowledging Israel's right to exist, more militant Jews went away from the talks still intent...