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...letter to the London Times, the Canon of Westminster, the Rev. John Austin Baker, implored the government to be more flexible. "Even at this late hour an attempt could be made to avert a new legacy of bloodshed and bitterness," he wrote, "and many people here in England are conscious of our responsibility not only in but for this tragic situation." At week's end Catholic Political Leader John Hume reported that "a door has been opened" in his talks with Ulster Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins. Most observers devoutly hoped so. If some room for compromise...
...true story of this infamous would be institution to the eats of someone who had not like myself had the dubious privilege of being here at the time of its formation in the hope, of course, of winning a new convert for the boycott, and thus perhaps helping to avert a tragic repudiation of student activism in the sixties such as acceptance of the CRR would represent. I was quite surprised at the turn the conversation took, for the freshman, rather than being simply a naive tool of the wool-pulling administration, was repeatedly asking an extremely valid question...
...have agreed with the U.S. to avert an accidental outbreak of a nuclear war; we also signed with it a treaty on limiting strategic offensive weapons, which is called SALT I, and in June 1979, after almost seven years of work, a second treaty of the same type. Along with quantitative, this treaty sets qualitative limits to the effort of the sides in the military sphere. The system of SALT treaties has brought the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. to a point beyond which real disarmament, the actual reduction of military confrontation levels, begins...
...avert a possible mass transit shutdown this weekend, Gov. Edward J. King yesterday submitted a new proposal to bail out the bankrupt Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and reorganize its troubled management...
...victory possible. For one thing, Healey's brilliant but abrasive personality had created a host of enemies, while Foot's genial ways had won him friends across the political spectrum. But the overriding reason that many moderate and even right-wing M.P.s opted for Foot was to avert an explosive crisis that has been shaping up in the deeply divided party...