Word: deters
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...that did not deter demonstrators...
...guerrillas and killed five of them in the ensuing firefight. While Israeli and Jordanian troops traded fire in daily duels across the muddy Jordan River, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol observed ominously that "any form of war and incitement to war will oblige us to repel, deter, and take the battle to the enemies' gates and beyond." That might mean new invasion thrusts toward Damascus, Amman and Cairo if the commando infiltrations continue...
...students, junior faculty, and faculty on the pros and cons of punishing the demonstrators before he formulated his own position. In a typical fashion, he maintained an orderly list of the arguments on each side. In the end, he favored the most lenient possible punishment that would also deter a recurrence...
NUCLEAR CONTROL: Until a real peace is assured, we are going to need nuclear weapons to deter the Soviet Union and Chinese. But we must move toward less reliance on these weapons. There is something terribly dangerous in the fact that men, with all their possibilities of error and weakness, can blow up the world in an hour or two. So we have to move toward agreement, perhaps beginning by further restrictions on nuclear tests...
...Balaguer is moving forcefully-and with little coordinated political opposition to deter him. General Elias Wessin y Wessin, leader of the ultraright, remains in involuntary exile in Miami. Leftist Juan Bosch continues in voluntary exile in Spain. Meantime, their political movements within the country have splintered and all but disintegrated. Pleas by Wessin, Bosch and other opposition leaders for a heavy abstention on voting day were largely unheeded by the electorate...