Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With scarcely any advance notice, President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe himself went on the radio to allay the nation's fears. "My fellow countrymen and women," he began, "I would like to acquaint you tonight of steps which have been taken to avert the crisis...
...echoed the African charges, along with the customary catalogue of Russian threats and promises, including a demand that the U.S. abandon its proposed multilateral nuclear force and an offer of a NATO-Iron Curtain nonaggression pact. The Assembly was still operating under its moratorium on voting-self-imposed to avert a showdown over Russia's peacekeeping arrears. And there was quite an interruption when, to protest the appearance of Castro-Communist Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, a Cuban exile fired a bazooka shell at the U.N. Secretariat building (see THE HEMISPHERE). But nothing could keep the Assembly from pursuing its primary...
...doctor to accept his life at the cost of the prince's. Even so, the stagecraft is considerably less faulty than the logic. Miller has written an equation with a missing term-power. Power precedes responsibility. One is not accountable for events that one is powerless to avert or affect...
Voluntary Fund. Terrified of the prospect of a Russian walkout, the bulk of the U.N. membership has spent most of the year searching for a formula that might avert the crisis. A 21-nation working committee, followed by a four-nation "good offices committee," proposed a voluntary all-purpose peacekeeping fund so that Russia would not have to contribute directly to operations it considered illegal. The U.S. has offered a variety of minor concessions to Russian pride. So far, Russia's position has not changed. But Secretary-General U Thant was working hard to avoid a showdown, proposed delaying...
...same panel, with its chairman, Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), replaced by Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds, is seeking to avert a new strike. The third member of the panel is Theodore W. Kheel, a New York lawyer and arbitrator...