Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoping to avert a mass exodus, the government has banned travel abroad, and passports are issued only for "special cases." To qualify for that category, a bribe of $2,000 or more is needed. Even so, the passport office is crammed with applicants. When a rumor swept the city that Australia was granting unlimited visas to South Vietnamese, a massive crowd snarled traffic in front of the Australian embassy. After the 1954 truce, as many as 50,000 Vietnamese settled in France, which many Vietnamese regard as a cultural mother country. Last week the French embassy was again besieged...
...itself? The nation's fundamental foreign policy interest is of course survival as a free society. This means avoiding nuclear war, through 1) maintaining adequate U.S. armaments, 2) pursuing detente and its arms-limiting efforts like the SALT negotiations, and 3) as part of the foregoing, trying to avert local conflicts that could turn into nuclear war. A second fundamental U.S. foreign policy interest is to bolster allies and friends who share America's strategic, economic and (ideally) political goals. Obviously, in furthering these interests, some nations or groups of nations are far more important...
...that Jews would forget their traditions and simply merge with the population. Where the ghetto served to preserve Judaism, it was feared the American suburb might subtly undermine it. Since World War II, the spectacle of Israel?brave, threatened, struggling for survival against heavy odds?did much to avert this danger
Gamely?and prudently?Percy did so. He talked to 125 irate Jews at a hastily called meeting. "You are pouring oil on the fire of the Middle East problem," charged a retired U.S. Army general, Julius Klein. Percy insisted that Israel should make adjustments now in order to avert another, bloodier war. Percy also answered questions from Irv Kupcinet on Chicago television. He noted that he had long criticized Arab leaders as more intransigent than Israel's but now saw some give in the Arab position. He said no fewer than twelve Arab leaders had told him that Israel...
...DuBois Institute Student Committee (DISC) yesterday presented a see of recommendations calling for action which would avert the eventual Isolation" of the Afro-American Department from the proposed W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research...