Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard it was starting and said "Okay, we've got to go!' I was so scared," he admitted. "We were out there running with the bulls, and you had to climb up on fences to avoid them...
...University aims to avoid sacrificing the character of the house system--to avoid putting upperclassmen in freshman dorms as happened this year--it will have to rethink the give-and-take between its planning needs and those of its students. Administrators simply have to leave a greater margin between the numbers of students allowed into houses and the rooms available...
...members of the S.A.C.P." As the group's exile continued into the 1970s, its influence among South African blacks declined somewhat. But that changed after a mass uprising in the black township of Soweto near Johannesburg in 1976. An estimated 4,000 young blacks fled the country to avoid detention, and most of them joined the A.N.C. The result was an infusion of new blood and fighting spirit. Well before Tambo's recent declaration of a people's war, A.N.C. guerrillas armed with Soviet-made AK-47 rifles began to escalate their attacks on South Africa from bases in Angola...
...moment, however, the A.N.C.'s principal challenge is how to avoid squandering its new political strength in South Africa and its heightened prestige abroad. On one hand, it must keep up pressure on the South African government if it is to retain its credibility and its following. On the other, even some A.N.C. leaders admit that a resort to more and more violence runs the very real risk of losing support, moral and otherwise, from the West and from whites in South Africa...
Washington's role in the supply runs, legally forbidden until the aid bill became law, remained a matter of heated dispute. U.S. diplomats in Central America privately say that both the CIA and the State Department knew of the operations but were careful to avoid becoming directly involved. While Gomez had previous CIA ties, they said, he probably volunteered to aid the contras as a private operative...