Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determine whether witnesses' lawyers will have the right to question their own clients and other witnesses. But Kennedy did win a partial victory. The inquest will be private, with the record impounded until the case is finally closed. "These general rules," said the Supreme Judicial Court, "tend to avoid embarrassment by premature publicity."* The court also noted that "Petitioner Kennedy's own resort to television may have increased public interest in the events...
...Israel held its seventh national elections last week, many others voted under similarly martial conditions. Along the Jordanian border, kibbutzniks lined up a few at a time to avoid attracting shellfire; they dropped their ballots into bullet-and shell-proofed steel boxes. In Jerusalem, Arabs (who account for 150,000 of Israel's 1,750,000 voters) and Jews mingled without incident at polling places. All told, 83% of the eligible voters cast ballots...
...northeast of Manila. Instantly, rescue craft took off along his track, searching for wreckage. Happily, it was a false alarm. The 67-year-old Lindbergh, who now devotes his life to the cause of conservation, had simply set his single-engine plane down in a dry rice paddy to avoid a tropical squall. Then his battery went dead, cutting out the engine starter; finally he hitched a ride with a passing motorist to get his battery recharged, and after four hours he took off again on his inspection tour of wildlife and primitive tribes in the area. Said Lindy, when...
...peace plan the President reiterated in his talk-Vietnamization of the struggle according to a timetable he would not divulge-is consistent with this vision. American troops will continue to fight and die in Vietnam to avoid a "defeat" which so many have already acknowledged. And after our uncertain withdrawal, we will continue a costly program of aid to the South Vietnamese government and other reactionary Asian regimes at a time when money is so desperately needed to remedy domestic ills...
...President reviewed the choice of tactics open to him, essentially the same that faced him when he, took office in January. He repeated his arguments against precipitate withdrawal. They included the need to protect Vietnamese minorities, especially the Catholics, from enemy atrocities and to avoid a "collapse of confidence" in U.S. leader ship. Speedy withdrawal, the President said, would "promote recklessness in the councils of those great powers who have not yet abandoned their roles of world conquest...