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...riots were, their resolution offered hopeful pointers for the future. Given levelheaded law enforcement, maintenance of open communication with local Negro leadership, and-above all, perhaps -the deployment of concerned and responsible Negroes like the Tampa and Dayton "white hats," city officials may well be able to avert full-scale conflagrations that can only scar their cities and needlessly inflame race relations...
Through the dawn and early morning hours, Lyndon Johnson pored over cables on the Arab-Israeli war in his White House bedroom. After two weeks in which the President had bent every effort to avert hostilities, the overwhelming peril was that the U.S. and Russia would now be sucked into a direct confrontation that neither superpower wanted. Around 8 a.m., Monday, the President's bedside phone brought some electrifying and potentially ominous news. Walt W. Rostow, the President's national security adviser, was calling to report that the "hot line" was being activated from Moscow...
...minor S.P.D. losses in two recent state elections have made the Socialists sensitive to any political maneuvers by their coalition partners. By taking over the party, Kiesinger expects to be able to keep the more rambunctious members of the C.D.U. party under control and thus be able to avert a split in his coalition...
...propose such legislation. Last week, faced with one of the nation's recurring rail crises, he pledged at a press conference to propose a workable formula that would exclude compulsory arbitration so hated by labor. Next day the President produced a plan that would astutely avert a strike-without eliminating compulsory arbitration...
While the UHS may avert a number of suicides through therapy, it rarely gets to see the students who do commit suicide. "The student who successfully attempts suicide has usually never had any contact with our Psychiatric Service," Blaine said. Thus the UHS has yet to attract some of the most disturbed students on campus...