Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beirut, Lebanese officials reacted angrily to a charge by Kim Philby, the Briton who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963, that eight Lebanese journalists and politicians had been working for British intelligence. Philby's charge was clearly part of a "disinformation" campaign designed to divert attention from the big spy case in London. One unexpected result was to disrupt a Soviet campaign to cultivate Lebanon's influential moderate and right-wing leaders. Former President Camille Chamoun, whose eldest son Dorian was named by Philby, angrily canceled a dinner he had planned to give for Soviet Ambassador Sarvar...
Future Soviet nuclear projects, Seaborg says, are even more ambitious. The Russians are considering blasting a deep channel that would divert water from the Pechora River to the nearby Kama River, which flows into the Caspian Sea. That linkup, engineers anticipate, would increase the amount of water supplied to the Caspian Sea, which has dropped nearly ten feet in the past 35 years, affecting docking facilities, caviar-producing sturgeon and even the local climate...
...days earlier, already under pressure to smash the I.R.A., Faulkner had flown to London for a secret meeting with British Prime Minister Edward Heath. Faulkner and Heath agreed to invoke the special powers of preventive detention-i.e., imprisonment without trial-for suspected subversives. Heath attempted to divert suspicion of impending emergency action by going back to his yachting immediately. A few days later he led Britain to victory in the internationally contested Admiral's Cup races...
People Blight. Even so, to come this far 4-H has already moved piles of rural conservatism. Agricultural lobbies, including the purebred cattlemen's associations, mistrust urban 4-H programs because they divert extension experts from the agribusiness. The governing board of this year's Indiana State Fair has not provided space for several displays produced by the new urban projects. Although the fair managers plead that the programs are still too insignificant to be represented, to State Leader Frickey the omission is symptomatic. "They'll have an exhibit on corn blight, and that's fine...
...orders. The rules also permit other airlines that fly the same routes to adopt similar prices in order to compete. Pan Am, the only U.S. carrier with direct service to Brussels, quickly followed Sabena and set an identical rate. Then the French government, fearing that the Belgian action would divert Paris-bound Americans to Brussels, promptly ordered Air France to introduce a $220 New York-Paris round-trip fare. This in turn permitted TWA, which flies into Paris, to do the same...