Word: avoid
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...36th President of the U.S. and the man who will be No. 37 are two of the most pugnacious politicians of their generation. Yet both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon seemed determined last week to avoid the rancor that has so often accompanied the transfer of power...
Lyndon Johnson would like nothing better than to get the negotiations resumed quickly in the hope of achieving major progress toward a settlement before his term in the White House runs out. However, he also wants to avoid any semblance of bullying Thieu to the conference table. Thieu's task is equally complicated. Standing up to the U.S. won him such enthusiastic support from Saigon's politicians and generals that he felt compelled at one point to promise: "I will try to keep flexing my muscle as long as I can." At the same time, he was prudently...
...halt of American bombing of North Viet Nam, and the consequent feeling that peace is a few steps nearer, Sihanouk now says that the men will go free once he has received a note from Lyndon Johnson pledging that U.S. forces in Viet Nam will "do their best" to avoid violations of Cambodian territory. As a head of state, the Prince refuses to deal with anyone but L.B.J.; a recent Dean Rusk note containing the pledge was brushed aside as "insufficient...
Harvard's soccer team, eliminated from the Ivy League race last weekend by a 5-1 defeat at the hands of league-leading Brown, must beat Yale in its finale to avoid a second division finish for the first time since...
...this is "a rather emotional side issue" to the report, Dunlop says, and he would not try to fight the CEP on the Faculty floor. It is an issue, nonetheless, and once having adopted the first recommendation of the Dunlop report, it is an issue that the Faculty cannot avoid...