Word: averting
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...research. Later he stipulated that participation was desirable, but only if other allies joined as well. In a further departure, a recent government policy paper describes the project as "a long-term research effort" and emphasizes that West Germany favors an outcome in the Geneva disarmament talks that would "avert an arms race in space." Said a West German spokesman, explaining his government's announcement last week that it would not respond immediately to the Weinberger offer: "The Americans can't think that we are so crazy as to make a decision now about a research concept...
...sporadically. Furthermore, the Pakistanis are reportedly well along on their efforts to produce their own nuclear weapon. Echoing his mother's anger, Rajiv Gandhi said a few weeks ago that he expected war between India and Pakistan before the end of the year. He could do much to avert the threat of such a war by allowing a resumption of the talks with Pakistan that India called off in July...
...Cantabs, who have now lost as many games as they did all last season, suffered similar scoring problems a year ago but rebounded in time to avert such a dramatic skid...
...assignments; in Brattleboro, Vt. A graduate of Yale, Bunker was an executive in the sugar industry for 35 years before President Truman named him to be Ambassador to Juan Perón's Argentina in 1951; he was later posted to Italy, India and Nepal. Bunker helped avert a war between The Netherlands and Indonesia in 1962, and three years later mediated between factions in the Dominican Republic. Called from retirement and sent to Viet Nam in 1967 to preside over what he hoped would be the winding down of American involvement, Bunker did finally see the withdrawal...
...appeared two weeks ago in their domestic press and on the TASS foreign wire. In a historical analogy that would be hard to decipher anywhere outside the Soviet Union, the state media sought to justify Moscow's infamous 1939 nonaggression pact with Hitler as an attempt to avert a world war, and pointedly added that the lessons of that period were pertinent. Only an audience that has heard and read almost daily allusions to Reagan as a power-mad ideologue intent on crushing the Communist system would recognize the editorial as Moscow's way of preparing the Soviet...