Word: avoiding
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...rights. We on our part expect the same principles to be applied to us." One reason for Eshkol's restraint, of course, was the knowledge that a good part of the Western world, particularly the U.S. and Great Britain, was working hard behind the scenes to try to avoid hostilities. "Everybody has been talking to everybody," said Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro-myko-and for once he was right...
...House of Representatives has passed a bill which unwisely restricts the President's power to make long overdue reforms in the present selective service system. In resolving the differences between this House bill and the much less respective measure passed by the Senate, conferees should avoid sacrificing an enlightened draft policy--one that follows the recommendations of the President's Commission on the draft--for the sake of compromise...
...Viet Nam. His only reservation in standing for the Sept. 3 elections, he said, was that he would "never" oppose his colleague in the ruling military directorate, General Nguyen Van Thieu, should Chief of State Thieu decide to run. Though both officers had wanted a single "military" candidate to avoid splitting the army's loyalties in the balloting, both also want the presidency badly. So last week Thieu called Ky's bluff. He announced that he, too, would run, although it would be two or three weeks before he formally threw his hat in the ring. That left...
...apply internal pressure for a return to representative government. Through his friend and spokesman, Times columnist C.L. Sulzberger, Constantine has attempted to convince the U.S. public that he is "pressing subtly but persistently for the restoration of democracy while, in the meantime, rallying potentially discordant elements in order to avoid the risk of violence...
Paper Terrier. When the taping is over, Johnny has a Coke or Michelob, slips into a turtleneck jersey and a cardigan, then, to avoid the ambush of autograph hounds, takes a side elevator down and makes a fast getaway in his waiting limousine. From then on, he writes his own script-one he likes to keep a closed book. Sometimes it is an open ledger. The Chicago Tribune paid him $25,000 for a 14-part syndicated interview series just completed last week. A top editor of the Trib concedes that its penetration was "pretty thin...