Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...November 1967 Vance achieved his greatest success-helping avert a war between Greece and Turkey over the disputed island of Cyprus. In 1968 he plunged into an equally arduous but less rewarding mission: serving as Ambassador Averell Harriman's deputy during the lengthy and unsuccessful Paris negotiations to settle the Viet Nam War. Although Vance had been an early supporter of the war, he gradually began urging that the U.S. agree to an eventual withdrawal of its troops as one condition of a ceasefire. Later he criticized Richard Nixon for taking too hard a line with the North Vietnamese...
...Africa. You don't realize how strong Vorster is. This is what makes me anxious about Kissinger's settlement; there is nothing that Kissinger got from the Rhodesians that Vorster hasn't wanted for two years. Vorster wants a black government in Rhodesia. Kissinger's settlement, although meant to avert race war, just plays into the hands of the Afrikaaner regime...
...Cuban missile crisis of 1962 that spurred U.S. and Soviet officials to install the famous Washington-Moscow "hot line." Apart from its symbolic value, they reasoned, the hot line would provide the kind of instant communication that just might help to avert nuclear holocaust...
...country remained calm last week, but, as one West German businessman in Warsaw observed, "You have the feeling the place could explode any minute." To avert new violence, Gierek has promised to conduct "a frank, open dialogue" with the public about his food policy. Just in case that should fail, he has also canceled military leaves so that Polish forces can maintain a state of semi-alert...
...loss next season, has yet another huge financial problem on its hands. Deprived of the Hurok guarantee (worth $70,000 a week), it must now find other tenants. Talks are under way with several companies (notably Britain's Royal Ballet) in an effort to solve the problem and avert deeper financial trouble...