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...political grounds, and the White House knows it. The quarrel is not over U.S. intentions but over the methods by which Nixon seeks to leave the field. While convincing the home audience that the U.S. is irreversibly quitting the war, the President must keep Hanoi sufficiently off balance to avert any military disaster until American forces are well clear. Thus the rationale for the Cambodian and Laotian air actions. What disturbs antiwar critics, though, is that the U.S. has increasingly put itself in the position of preserving the Lon Nol government...
...relative isolation at Cape Kennedy. Only people absolutely essential to their mission have been allowed to come in contact with them (only exception: their wives). Others, such as NASA scientists, must brief them from behind glass partitions in their sealed-off crew quarters. With the quarantine, NASA hopes to avert another Apollo 13-type measles crisis, which nearly caused a last-minute cancellation of the mission after one of the back-up astronauts contracted the disease on a preflight visit to Houston and exposed the prime crew...
...this I mean that every effort to avert acceptance of error and failure-every "cosmetic" approach, in current Washington parlance-is simply a formula for further evason and self-deception and for a longer, wider war. Every effort to "save face" will lead to new Cambodia's, renewed bombing of the North or bizarre high-risk speculation, like the abortive prisoner-rescue effort...
...Huskies for three quick goals and sophomores Dave Hynes and Bob McManama added two more after only six minutes of play to end the game for Northeastern. When Cavanagh fed DeMichele for Harvard's sixth goal at 1:10 of the second period, the Huskies forgot about trying to avert a shutout, and tried to salvage the evening with a fight...
...motors drive each of the eight spoked wheels independently. Like a remote-controlled toy car, it is steered by radio signals from earth, where monitors are able to see the terrain in front, behind and to the side of the rover in pictures transmitted from onboard TV cameras. To avert disabling accidents, Lunokhod has a number of safety features. It can, for instance, shut itself off if it begins to list dangerously, or if one of its wheels becomes stuck in a lunar rut. If the wheel cannot be worked free, the ground controllers can fire a small explosive charge...