Word: counteracting
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...McCarthy's day, there was a quiet veto on meaningful conversation. Today we are concerned with not just the suppression of protest, but fear-the fear that we might be bugged or under surveillance. No amount of reassurance that these things are not being misused will counteract that fear...
...than two million men are now under arms in the South); and, ironically, "Vietnamization" itself. For as the American presence in Saigon decreases, long pent-up opposition to the Thieu regime has mounted. And in response, the Saigon government is forced to rely on increased repression in order to counteract this threat: between one and two hundred thousand political prisoners (no one knows the exact figure) are now being held under intolerable conditions in "interrogation centers" and jails...
...even the standing room in 2 Divinity Ave, yesterday, to see an NROTC-sponsored showing of a movie prepared by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The film. "Operation Abolition," shows "communist-inspired" students demonstrating last May against the Committee's San Francisco hearings. Its aim is to counteract the recent movement among certain liberal groups to abolish the Committee...
...last week, Sweden's Premier Olof Palme called for some way "to counteract technology's multiplication of the power to destroy." British Prime Minister Edward Heath warned in the same forum: "It may be that in the decade ahead of us, civil war, not war between nations, will be the main danger we will face." During a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio, Richard Nixon said that the ubiquitous terrorism was "an international disease...
Denouncing the Middle East cease-fire as a "political fraud," China has carried on secret talks with the Palestinian commandos, who are opposed to a truce with Israel. China supports ongoing conflict partly because it wants to counteract any Soviet-American cooperation, partly because it wants to appear as the champion of revolutionary forces. Chou received a delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Peking last week, and the Chinese chargé d'affaires in Baghdad has reportedly promised the guerrillas unlimited aid. Chinese aid so far has consisted mainly of small arms that are shipped to the Iraqi...