Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oxford. Planner Rowen concentrates on strategic questions for the future rather than day-to-day defense programs, originated major elements in the "no-city" strategy outlined by McNamara in Ann Arbor. Mich., last month; under it. U.S. retaliation to surprise attack would concentrate on Soviet military objectives and avoid destruction of cities. Articulate and wide-ranging in his interests-which may be NATO or guerrilla warfare-he worked at Rand on a broad study of overseas bases that turned into a full-dress comparative review of U.S. v. Soviet strategic airpower. "As soon as he touches a sensitive nerve...
...only U.S. county to close all its public schools rather than desegregate them is Virginia's Prince Edward (pop. 14,000), whose schoolhouse doors have stayed shut for three years. Last week Federal District Judge Oren R. Lewis rejected Prince Edward's elaborate device to avoid obeying the law of the land...
Thus, if you do as I did, you enter one of the most difficult parts of the parachuting experience, the period of mental preparation. It's frustrating because reason fights with emotion. You are convinced of the safety, but you can't avoid the fears...
...collapse of the United Arab Republic, when Syria violently withdrew from the coalition with Egypt. Nasser was so shaken by that event that he allowed his secret police to institute a virtual reign of terror. He pulled out of this scare about four months ago, just in time to avoid a serious political reaction against him. With the help of massive economic aid from the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund, he has made another remarkable recovery, is finally facing the pressing problems which must be conquered before Egypt can enter the 20th century...
...colonel of Peru's army stood before an electric loudspeaker and pointed it at the palace where his President lives. "We demand immediate surrender," he yelled. "Avoid unnecessary bloodshed. We have enough armament here to blow down the entire palace." No reply came from the grey granite building. One of 30 tanks out front gunned its engine, rammed through the black wrought-iron gates. A few minutes later, a tired, slightly bowed man was escorted from the palace, plunked into a station wagon, and packed off to an island prison aboard a troopship...