Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to pass a hasty moral judgment on an international conflict is likely to lead us into an oversimplified formula of thinking and we might fall into an endless circular debate. To avoid this, let's adopt a more realistic point of view. The realistic viewpoint in this case requires us first to examine what this local war signifies in the context of international politics and what its possible solutions...
...decade-long duel with the Justice Department, Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, 54, was tried six times and convicted twice, but he managed to avoid imprisonment while his lawyers strung out one appeal after another. Last week, as the Supreme Court turned down Hoffa's appeal of a 1964 jury-tampering conviction for the second time in three months, it looked as if the string had finally run out. Scarcely 48 hours after the court announced its decision, Federal Judge Frank Wilson ordered Hoffa to appear this week in Chattanooga, Tenn., site of the jury-tampering trial, to begin serving...
...elder Clark stepped down to avoid any hint of impropriety, though no law or precedent obliged him to do so. Actually, most of the Justice Department cases that reach the high court are handled not by the Attorney General but by the Solicitor General.* But without ever formally discussing the matter with either Ramsey or the President, who is an old personal friend, Clark had long since made up his mind to quit the court if his son became Attorney General. "Mrs. Clark and I," he said in his statement, "are filled with both pride and joy over Ramsey...
...Morarji Desai, 71, who undoubtedly would like to curb their independence. To give Desai less time to collect supporters, the party's parliamentary board moved the selection of Prime Minister forward by three weeks, to March 12. Indira was also helped by a feeling that the party should avoid any further upheavals. Said one state chief: "Enough blood has flowed already...
Should Merritt-Chapman & Scott, by some stroke of genius, avoid liquidation, it would have to get along without Wolfson. Stung by the suits and charges against him, Wolfson protests that "when you can't be an individual, a pioneer, I'm getting out." Israel Merritt had a different view of pioneering...