Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn out in force wherever Johnson and his Cabinet members go in coming months. When Secretary of State Dean Rusk addressed the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan last week, he had to slip into the garage entrance of the New York Hilton an hour ahead of time to avoid some 3,000 pickets. Most were moderates, but some, spearheaded by the Students for a Democratic Society and a handful of radicals from the Trotskyite-Maoist Progressive Labor Party, came equipped with plastic bags of cow's blood and aerosol cans with orange paint. They were looking for trouble...
...face or utter a word, Education Commissioner Harold Howe also proved a force. Under the G.O.P. plan, several of OEO's programs, including the Job Corps, would go to Howe's Office of Education, but Southerners would do almost anything-including voting to preserve OEO-to avoid giving more power to a man they regard as a radical integrationist...
Furtively Bruited About. While all this was going on Harold Wilson and his ministers were bent on a course that they had tried desperately to avoid ever since he took over as Prime Minister three years ago. Two weeks before, Chancellor Callaghan had gone to Wilson and reported that the Treasury's quarterly forecast showed that the outlook for 1968's balance of payments looked even worse than had been expected, and in fact suggested that there would be no improvement at all over the current year. In July, Callaghan had said publicly: "Those who advocate devaluation...
...increased German aid. There are also reports in Rangoon about big shipments of U.S. counterinsurgency weaponry and of the presence of a U.S. training mission to teach Burmese pilots to fly newly delivered F-86 jet fighters. Washington officials stress that the U.S. intends to avoid any deep commitment in Burma-and with good reason. The country's rapid rate of deterioration makes South Viet Nam seem almost a model of stability...
When broad constitutional questions have been put before the Supreme Judicial court in the last few years, it has usually been careful to avoid them. When, for example, it tossed out the Massachusetts Teachers' Loyalty Oath, it did so on narrow grounds which verged on the ridiculous. Now the Court has demonstrated a willingness to tackle major issues of constitutionality, and the change, if in fact it proves to be a change, is a refreshing...