Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lumumba to the failure of the 1965 rebel groups. The Soviets have encouraged only so long as they could avoid massive direct intervention...
There has been speculation that the reason the White House has refused to confirm the President's plans is simply to avoid a big protest like the one in Los Angeles several weeks ago which ended in a serious clash between police and demonstrators...
There is a federal law against advising anyone how to avoid the draft, but the resistors have not been deterred. They are quite open about what they are doing. Ray Mungo, a member of the group, describes their activities in these terms: "We are unabashedly using every means possible to inhabit, retard, and be dishonest with the Selective Service System...Our position has been philosophically anarchistic. That is, we make no moral judgements about why a kid wants out. If he wants out, we get him out the best...
...warm and even enthusiastic hearing. There are quite a few where it is not deemed tactful or discreet for an official defender to appear. For the first time in our history this spring the spokesmen for our foreign policy found it necessary, in pursuit of this discretion, to avoid that fine old American folkrite, the commencement ceremony. Either too many students and too many faculty would be present or too many would obtrusively decline to be present. This is the situation on which we should reflect...
...assumption is that large areas of South Vietnam are so firmly under the control of the Viet Cong that their capture is unfeasible. To avoid a reckless squandering of American lives and resources, the Administration, Galbraith argues, should limit its military action to securing "the maximum of security, tranquility and well-being in the limited but populous areas that we control." In this way Galbraith hopes to maintain a U.S. commitment in Vietnam with a minimum loss of life until a negotiated settlement is achieved...