Word: prevent
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...statecraft" by , Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger "that has not had its equal in our time." The trouble, he believes, is that most Americans fail to understand detente because it involves an inconsistency: the conflict between a "technological imperative" that demands cooperation between the two superpowers to prevent nuclear war, and an "ideological imperative" that demands competition. Detente may well mean more rather than less ideological conflict. But living with such contradictions, he argues breezily, is not at all unnatural...
Security systems for future nuclear plants should be planned to prevent terrorists from stealing their nuclear fuel and building nuclear bombs, a Harvard professor said yesterday...
...early as next month, President Ford plans to deliver a major address setting forth his own guidelines for the intelligence community and its relations with Congress. Clearly, Congress should oversee the work of the agency to prevent any abuses of power. Even more clearly, the secret spending of U.S. funds to bolster democratic parties abroad, especially those threatened by foreign-financed Communist parties, is the kind of covert action the CIA should be able to undertake on a selective basis...
...understand China.'" Unlike Mao, Chou was not a theoretician, but rather a kind of inspired pragmatist?"a builder, not a poet," as his old friend Journalist Edgar Snow put it. Nevertheless, he was a supporter of certain of the doctrines of Mao, especially the Chairman's lifelong campaign to prevent the revolutionary leadership from hardening into a new "revisionist" ruling class. Over the years, Chou became China's indispensable man, an administrator whose control over the governing bureaucracy gave him the key to the day-to-day operations of the country, thereby allowing Mao to play the important but sometimes...
...drastic a revision of Resolutions 242 and 338, however, will almost certainly trigger a U.S. veto. "We would strongly oppose any attempt to change them," Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned last week. The principal U.S. objective at the debate is to prevent the Security Council from becoming the main forum for future Middle East peace efforts. Washington is determined either to maintain the step-by-step diplomatic approach that so far has achieved two Israeli-Egyptian Sinai accords and one Israeli-Syrian agreement or to return to the Geneva Conference, jointly sponsored by the U.S. and the Soviet Union...