Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firm evidence that foreign officers or troops were fighting with the Simbas. Even Tshombe's complaint to the U.N. Security Council that "rebel hordes, led by foreign officers, particularly Algerians and Egyptians, are operating all along the Congo's northeastern frontier" was carefully worded to avoid specifying which side of the frontier he meant...
Although the U.S. has learned to live with many forms of neutralism and Communism, as far as Viet Nam is concerned, "neutralization" merely misrepresents the issue. For the foreseeable future, it would amount to Communist takeover. Tempting though it would be to avoid jungle neighborhoods like Southeast Asia and the Congo and confine U.S. efforts to the more manageable and powerful parts of the world, writing off any area would simply mean inviting in the Communists-who can always extend their influence more cheaply than the U.S. through local Communist parties...
...came about because of the Assembly's current quandary over Russia's nonpayment of dues for U.N. peacekeeping operations in the Congo and the Gaza Strip. To avoid a disastrous showdown over the U.S.'s demand that Russia pay up or be banned from further voting, the General Assembly had decided (TIME, Dec. 11) not to vote on anything until a compromise could be reached. But General Assembly President Alex Quaison-Sackley was faced with the need to get Assembly approval of four new nonpermanent Security Council members to replace those whose terms were expiring. Though Indonesia...
...Michigan survey of consumers, a remarkable 46% forecast that the U.S. would never again have a recession of even the mild 1960 variety. Says Economist George Katona, the chief pollster: "When we ask why not, we are most often told that 'they' have learned how to avoid a recession...
...every city I always hear the lions roar." He loved the street-scene turmoil and crammed his major canvases with crowds of jostling, uncongenial characters. Son of a Leipzig flour merchant, Beckmann was already a success at the age of 30 when World War I broke out. To avoid killing, he volunteered for the medical corps. Still, the constant exposure to slaughter, which he often drew, punctured his optimism so destructively that 30 years later he wondered if war had wounded his soul...