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...local neighborhood association met with Cambridge officials Wednesday to discuss the creation of a citizens' committee to avert racial flare-ups in Cambridge like those which exploded in Harlem and Rochester...
...Washington Post Reporter Edward Folliard to Barry Goldwater at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, "but do you think it would be feasible for you, as the Republican nominee for President, to get together with the Democratic nominee and try to work out some agreement that would avert the inflaming of racial tension - some appeal for a peaceful America...
Privately, U.S. advisers bitterly complained that the Vietnamese often just won't post sufficient flank guards to avert ambush. In the Mekong River village of Caibe, the Reds attacked a military dependents' compound, and 16 women and 24 children were killed in the crossfire-one of the worst tolls of civilians thus...
Seeking ways to avert a long series of such defeats, the Johnson Administration continued to hint that it is seriously considering fundamental changes in the ground rules under which it has waged the war. The State Department announced the 'creation of a new interagency task force to reassess the whole deteriorating situation. It is headed by William H. Sullivan, 41, a special assistant to Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman, and it will report directly to Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...immediate cause of death was anemia: the Reporter simply ran out of money. Never able to pay its own way, the tabloid managed to avert death only by desperate expedients. At the end, more than half the Reporter's staff was still unsalaried and subsisting entirely on meager strike benefits: up to $79 a week. Even its offset press was leased for a token $10 a year from the benevolent International Typographical Union...