Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Italian Independence. As the proceedings entered the second week, the Soviet hosts seemed more willing to let everyone have his say. Hoping to avoid any further fissures in the already fragmented Communist world, the Soviets also backed off somewhat from their earlier determination to wrest from the delegates an endorsement of the Russian stand against China and approval of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Compared with previous Communist conferences, Moscow '69 was relatively open and candid. Pravda ran excerpts from the speeches, including those unfavorable to the Soviet viewpoint. There were daily briefings for correspondents. A Soviet...
...formulate a legislative program and reluctant to push hard for the specific requests that it has made. The charge is at least partly accurate. Even before Inauguration Day, it was clear that Richard Nixon intended to hold down expenditures-and hence any new domestic programs-where possible, and to avoid unnecessary clashes with the Democratic-controlled Congress...
...Japan Security Pact, a prime target for Sato's extremist opposition. It becomes subject to renegotiation for the first time next year. The hope in both capitals is that, by defusing Okinawa's potential as political dynamite in Japan, Sato will retain enough public support to avoid reopening negotiations. If neither nation demands new talks, the pact will continue automatically. Without such a compromise, it is doubtful if either the Sato regime or a successor could weather home-front outrage and maintain friendly relations with...
...that time, mass peasant armies surrounded the cities where the government held power, and finally seized them. Mao envisions the peasant masses of the underdeveloped world encircling and ultimately conquering the industrial nations. As the Cultural Revolution illustrated, Maoism within China glorifies perpetual revolution to enable the party to avoid the barnacles of bureaucracy that have encrusted Soviet Communism...
...face of what political observers labeled "Pompidoulist" strength, however, Poher showed no inclination to retire from French politics as quickly -or as quietly-as he entered. "I became a candidate in the first place to avoid a confrontation between Gaullism and Communism, and I succeeded because I came in second," he explained. What is more, he intended to step up the fight, abandoning his earlier tactic of campaigning only by TV and press conference in favor of a jetliner tour of twelve cities in five days. His determination remained in spite of editorials in the prestigious Le Monde...