Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, the Viet Cong recruiters have their standards. Any man under 4 ft. 10 in. is rejected, as are those with kinfolk fighting for the government, those with such ailments as stomach trouble, tuberculosis, asthma or an amputated trigger finger. To avoid infiltration by government spies, one captured document enjoined against recruiting former ARVN volunteers, Roman Catholics, and "those young men whose father or mother were killed by the Revolution, landlords' sons, and those whose parents, brothers and sisters were tyrants, opponents and distributors of the Revolution...
Even the simplest of peasants, though, can hardly avoid the contradictions between V.C. propaganda and fact. Though the Communists claim to drive out bad government, soon after they capture a village there is usually a marked decline in public services: schools close down, medical aid disappears, roads are cut and sabotaged. As they liberate the peasants from Saigon's "oppression," the Viet Cong demand far more than Saigon would dare ask. Taxes are several times higher, and though the Viet Cong rail against the government's draft laws, which conscript young men at 20 for three years' service, the Communists...
Kiley's two colleagues definitely thought otherwise; they were unwilling to extend the product-liability trend far enough to sustain Schemel's claim. Their ruling held that the manufacturer's "duty is to avoid hidden defects and latent or concealed dangers. He is not bound to anticipate and guard against grossly careless misuse of his product...
...universities, it means that such cooperation can help to reduce deficiencies of national need. Agriculture, the various fields of engineering education and business and public administration need to be elevated to university status. Moreover, the universities need new programs and reorientation of their methods of selecting students to avoid the waste of manpower which occurs through duplication of effort and the lack of articulated purposes...
Four year programs in the arts, sciences, social sciences, and humanities must still be a vital concern of the university. The tasks of the combined faculties to provide basic studies for all students regardless of the choice of professional specializations must be reemphasized in order to avoid leaving the impression that this reorganization is primarily a way of preparing for professional studies...