Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That & the Flag. Taking what some listeners interpreted as swipes at Presidential Candidates Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater, Scranton warned that the G.O.P. must avoid both "me-tooing the Democrats" and a benighted "do-nothingism" whose credo is that "America's problems will disappear if we all merely wrap ourselves in the Stars and Stripes." Instead, he said, the party must foster change, but in its own way. "We can devise a hundred different bold new attacks on the problems of America, and we can do it without going outside the framework of the Constitution and the Federal principle...
Vietnamese-piloted planes pursued them to the border, killed an estimated 40 Reds with flaming napalm. But the troops had no U.S. helicopter support. Reason: to avoid the slightest chance of intruding on Cambodia's territory, American pilots are under orders not to fly within three miles of the border in areas where it is unmarked...
...other leaders use their high-powered, government-owned radios for propaganda messages, Nyerere uses his to broadcast casual eco nomic lessons. Recently he translated Shakespeare's Julius Caesar into Swahili, and although after Caesar's assassination Cassius shouts "Uhuru, uhuru!", Tanganyika's Julius was careful to avoid equating himself with Rome...
...Nigeria characterized the selection process this way: "It is quite unnerving to arrive at the training site and be told that all obstacles are still before you and then to be subjected to a marathon of psychological tests and interviews. In a short time everyone is extremely careful to avoid appearing concerned about the Sword of Damocles hanging overhead--a sure sign that all are concerned. It is really unavoidable. You are constantly agonizing over the answers you made to the last questionnaire, wondering whether an occasional flippancy (absolutely irresistible! I assmume you're acquainted with the inanities that psychologists...
...mutiny's leaders, but by Friday they had become, as Nyerere later said, "analogous to the negotiations between a blackmailer and his victim." One reliable source says that the mutineers were demanding the right to name three new ministers. Nevertheless, the government wanted, if at all possible to avoid calling in outside (namely British) help...