Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France's unpredictable Foreign Minister Christian Pineau startled his colleagues by producing an elaborate, though vague, plan for "a world economic development agency" under U.N. Designed to include the Russians and to prevent an economic cold war, it envisioned a central bank to make long-term loans and a worldwide system of price supports for raw materials produced by underdeveloped countries. Pineau and Premier Guy Mollet are scheduled to visit Moscow late this month. Most of Pineau's colleagues suspected his plan was chiefly intended to make a good impression in advance...
...traffic in bird-of-paradise plumes has been internationally banned since 1924, to prevent the extinction of the birds. Learning that Nepal badly needed to replace its worn-out royal plumes, the U.S. shipped over a package of 100 plumes that had been stored in New York City's American Museum of Natural History...
Shortly before the Chinese Communists seized Tibet, the Bhutan government closed its northern borders. But having no army or frontier guards, the Bhutanese were unable to prevent numbers of Tibetans from crossing into Bhutan. Many of these uninvited visitors turned out to be Chinese in Tibetan clothing. On the other side of the mountains, Red China is building a road toward Bhutan. To strengthen his government the King recently set up a Central Advisory Council composed of elders elected by tiny villages. Explained Jigme: "We have begun to sow a few seeds of democracy...
...emphasis on quality has been successful. Because the administration has been careful, however, to prevent overextending the educational facilities offered, Brandeis has been the frequent target of criticism on a quantitative basis. Its only graduate school is a small (150) one in arts and sciences, and critics clamor for a medical school--as a haven for Jewish medical students denied access elsewhere because of apparent quota limitations...
...increasing response stems from Red's approach to students. Because students are perpetually in revolt against authority, he feels the most important thing is to avoid "harassing them" with morality and theological pedantry. "They think we're very moral," he says, "and are afraid we're going to prevent them from experimenting. But remember that Saint Augustine once said, "Lord, let me be pure, but not just...