Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short months ago, the war seemed to have receded as a campaign issue. Heartened by President Nixon's withdrawal of nearly 500,000 U.S. troops from Viet Nam, war-weary Americans were more than willing to divert their attention to problems at home. Then as the North Vietnamese pressed their military advantage in the South and the U.S. responded with expanded bombing attacks in the North, the war that will not go away once again preyed on the national conscience...
...many South Vietnamese units crumpled with alarming speed. His choices included the resumption of massive bombing of the North, including possible air strikes against Hanoi itself, and the destruction of flood-preventing dikes. He could even send U.S. Marines into a hit-and-run attack above the DMZ to divert Hanoi's troops. He considered urging the South Vietnamese to stage a similar raid or to counterattack across the zone...
...leader of the group, who called himself Captain Rafat, was later identified as Ali Taha, 34, a onetime Jerusalem tour guide and seasoned skyjacker. In 1968 he helped divert an El Al jet to Algeria, and two years later participated in one of the fedayeen's most spectacular feats: the simultaneous skyjacking of three jets to the Jordanian desert...
Responsibility for preventing such abuses rests with HUD Secretary George Romney, whose department includes the poorly administered FHA. In an eloquent if self-serving speech, Romney tried to divert attention to the broader problems of the ghetto, noting that bad housing was a result rather than a cause of ghetto squalor...
...could legitimately argue that South Viet Nam desperately needed new businesses to lift its weak economy. Desirable though the new businesses might be, however, many citizens doubted that the army should own and run them. Private businessmen feared that the army would use its power as a customer to divert revenues to its own companies. The army seemed likely to become the largest buyer of Foproco's canned foods, for example, and to have all its roads and bridges built by Vicco. Said an executive of one army company: "Private businessmen have a reason to worry. Our companies will...