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...King seemed sad but not apologetic about the slaughter. "We tolerated a great deal in the hope that we could avert such a disaster," he said. "There was an explosion and it could not be averted." Most significant, Hussein appears ready to risk yet another explosion if the fedayeen challenge his authority again. Said the beleaguered King, who has outlawed guerrilla leaders George Habash of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Nayef Hawatmeh of the even more extreme Popular Democratic Front: "There will be law and order in this country. Jordan will never tolerate a state...
...committee came in for gentle gibing from some of the newsmen, but it raised morale and helped to avert a serious health crisis. It may also have saved some lives. Hussein's trigger-happy Bedouins were constantly threatening to shoot photographers who tried to film the fighting from the hotel. The committee finally persuaded the photographers to stow their cameras until the situation improved...
...recollection of his sons, in life and death, is clearly an attempt by the author to weave some sort of protective magic around them. Hemingway was an openly superstitious man. But anyone with children will find that easy to forgive. What father does not secretly believe he can avert tragedy by imagining it in advance, or hope that he can protect his children by holding them steadily, faithfully in mind and heart...
Piazza will be hoping to avert the trouble he had last weekend, when he virtually blacked out during the last two miles of a race with Lehigh and finished seventh. The 95-degree heat was apparently a factor in his misfortune...
...rapidly eroding the balance of payments gains brought about by two years of severe economic restraint. It has again called into question Britain's capacity to compete in an enlarged Common Market and poses a renewed-though not immediate-threat of another devaluation of the pound. To avert that blow, many economic analysts contend, Britain's new conservative government will have to adopt strong anti-inflation measures soon...