Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that point, Dubċek and his colleagues were equally unbending. As a justification for their invasion, the Soviets wanted Dubċek to make a public statement thanking the Red Army for saving Czechoslovakia from the clutches of counterrevolutionaries. Dubċek refused. Nor could the Soviets prevail upon two Novotnýite conservatives, whom most Czechoslovaks suspected of issuing the call for intervention, to give some credence to the rumor by at least keeping their mouths shut. As soon as they were re-elected to a new Central Committee that Dubċek formed last week...
...commercial flights. At New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, where the pressure has been greatest, the FAA intends to allow a fixed number of 80 landings and takeoffs an hour. The allocation is based on instrument conditions; if the weather is suitable and visual-landing regulations prevail, more than the 80 will be permitted. Priority will be given to commercial airlines, with a small number of reservations split between air taxis and private airplanes. At Kennedy, moreover, private planes will be banned between the peak hours of 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., when New York...
Love the Truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail...
...rebel students of Paris are threatening to take to the barricades again when their classes reconvene in November. Nonetheless, there is rising hope throughout France that relative peace may prevail in its chaotic university system. The optimism rests mainly on the promises and proficiency of Charles de Gaulle's agile new Minister of Education, Edgar Faure...
...ready to return to constitutional rule, and that he has become popular enough among the Greek people to win a nationwide election that would legalize his government. The hard-liners believe that the revolution has not yet accomplished its task, bitterly oppose retaining any vestige of royalty. Papadopoulos may prevail upon them to let him bring out the proposed constitution, which he hopes to submit to a public vote on Sept. 1. Even so, he can hardly expect the document to afford him much more protection than the earlier one gave former Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos, when Papadopoulos decided to have...