Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagan, too, planned to reach Kansas City early, settling into the sweeping elegance of the Alameda Plaza to wage his eleventh-hour fight to prevent an early Ford victory. His campaign manager, John Sears, would direct operations from a 50-ft. trailer outside the glistening arena, working the convention floor through Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and a batch of assistants. Both camps had their carefully prepared charts on how each delegate might vote-and they were poised to pounce on anyone who deviated from the expected. After nine long months of campaign labors, no one last week could be sure...
...that had gone along with the G.O.P. as long as there was prosperity broke away to vote for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. Blacks, Jews and other urban ethnic groups had been reliably Republican before the Depression; Roosevelt's appeal and his social programs made them solidly Democratic. Unable to prevent F.D.R. from being elected to four terms, the Republicans seemed to be retired into permanent opposition. The G.O.P. split into two groups?liberal internationalists and conservative isolationists, a division that hindered a recovery at the polls. The party did not regain the presidency until
Next day some 1,000 blacks rushed the Langa police station. The police again opened fire and killed at least two more people. Other demonstrators set up roadblocks and stoned trains and buses to prevent workers from going to their jobs in Cape Town. There, as in Johannesburg's Soweto, the tactic failed to disrupt business and industry seriously, but managed to intimidate many black workers. As one Johannesburg worker told Lee Griggs, TIME'S Africa bureau chief: "They scare me. This morning some young ones tried to make me stay in Soweto...
Soon, however, violence broke out elsewhere. Black youths pelted passing trains with stones. Some tried to prevent the 230,000 blacks from Soweto who work in Johannesburg from going to their jobs. A key railroad switching station was sabotaged to prevent the approximately 100 daily commuter trains from leaving Soweto for the city. As a result, tens of thousands of blacks failed to show up at their jobs in Johannesburg. By week's end only a handful of people had been killed in the new disturbances, but mobs of adults as well as youths were still roaming through...
...help P.L.O. terrorists return to the border, the Lebanese troops will be safe from Israeli attack. With Khatib's tacit permission, Israeli combat teams now patrol as deeply as three miles inside Lebanon, searching both for Syrian units and terrorists. They are also there to prevent fedayeen retaliation against border villagers, who in recent months have turned more and more to Israel for assistance...