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...Star of Bethlehem, she suddenly cried: "Oh, good Lord! Signs of slugs!" Rummaging through the soil like a Roto-Rooter, she exclaimed, "Aha! There's the little brute!" and flipped it onto a table. As the camera zoomed in for a closeup, she advised squeamish viewers to avert their eyes. Then she went into a mighty windup and bashed the creepy crawler with a flowerpot...
Because of tight patrols by police and British tommies, whose numbers were reinforced for the occasion, major violence was averted among rival Creole, Hindu and Moslem groups, who nonetheless continued sniping at one another. Violence or no, Mauritius faces hard times. Britain's sugar subsidy runs out in 1970. By then, Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam of the Hindu-backed Independence Party hopes to diversify the economy and lure new foreign investment. To avert violence, Britain will also help train and equip Mauritius' police and armed forces. As added protection, a company of the King's Shropshire...
...tendency to lay the blame for the riots on everyone except the rioters." Disputing the commission's attempt to debunk the notion that riots are planned by extremists, Nixon in a radio-network speech alluded to conspiracies to ignite next summer. Only a combination of efforts can avert racial upheavals, Nixon said, and he attributed equal importance to bringing "the American dream to the ghetto" and preparing "to meet force with force if necessary." What attracted the most attention was his reiteration of the need to make it "abundantly clear that these preparations are made, and that retaliation against...
...United States is to avert future violent upheavals, the only meaningful course of action is to attempt to alleviate the misery in the world. Posturing in Vietnam can not be a cheaper shortcut to the same...
After a series of campus uprisings, the University of California at Berkeley last January set up a joint student-faculty committee to study ways to avert future disorders. This week the committee-headed by Law Professor Caleb Foote and Graduate Student Henry E. Mayer-released a 250-page report that charged almost everybody involved in past troubles with pursuing "partisan ends" but also recommended some sound proposals as to how the school should govern itself...