Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plea for Defenses. Wilson was also receiving criticism last week on the colony of Aden and the South Arabian Federation, which is due for package independence in 1968. Early in the week four South Arabian Cabinet ministers ar rived in London to discuss ways for South Arabia to avert almost certain subversion and take-over by Egypt's Nasser once Britain pulls out its 13,000 troops and closes down Aden's Khormaksar Airfield. To beef up its 5,000-man army, South Arabia wants 5,000 British troops, some patrol boats and spotter planes, a couple...
That was too much for King Freddy. Declaring that the new constitution was nothing less than an act of secession from Uganda, he ordered Obote and his regime to leave Kampala, appealed to Secretary-General U Thant for United Nations intervention to avert "calamity at the eleventh hour." Obote immediately accused the King of high treason, surrounded the palace with troops. Then from the top of Mengo Hill came a sound seldom heard: the deep, buckskin thump of the royal war drums summoning Buganda's 2,000,000 subjects to rise to defend their King...
Harvard did manage to avert a shutout in the bottom of the ninth. Hootstein and Welz hit successive singles up the middle, and Hootstein scored from third on Neville's ground...
Columbia was as weak as ever but Penn was a powerhouse. The Quakers trounced Harvard last year, 7-0, and the Crimson did well to avert a repeat disaster...
...appointing the three-man committee, Johnson was able to avert the strike, which the International Association of Machinists called for 12:01 a.m. Saturday, to run 60 days...