Word: prevented
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...South Vietnamese in the various components of the armed forces, with American logistics, air lift and air support, should be able, if they have the will, to prevent the imposition by force of a Hanoi-controlled regime. If they lack a sense or a sufficiency of national purpose, we can never force it on them...
...that is released to confuse enemy anti-ballistic missile radar. Present plans call for deployment of 500 MIRVed Minuteman Ill's, in addition to 500 Minuteman II's with single warheads. All would be housed in 90-ft.-deep silos, located at least seven miles apart to prevent an enemy warhead from destroying two sites...
...virologists most last week was a third chemical, amantadine, an anti-influenza drug that the Food and Drug Administration has licensed, but under strict controls. Trade-named Sym-metrel by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., amantadine does not cure a fullblown case of flu. But it may prevent infection if taken before exposure, and mitigate the illness if taken early enough afterward. The trouble with amantadine is that it can produce insomnia, nervousness and lightheadedness, especially in older people, who would then be liable to injury from falls...
Stab in the Back. The Allies, Watt suggests, might have been able to prevent this vicious right-left polarization of Germany. Instead, by imposing a Carthaginian peace, they undercut the moderates and strengthened extremists. The Versailles Treaty ceded parts of German territory to other nations and burdened Germany with staggering reparations. Though the moderate Socialist government had no choice but to sign the treaty on Germany's behalf, it afterward came under incessant attack from the right for that "stab in the back"-the allegedly ignominious capitulation to the enemy. The Weimar Republic was already fatally weakened from...
...than I realized. We can't let this escalate into runaway inflation, and we're very close to that now." If Congress allows the tax to expire, he added, the economy could race far enough out of control to create "the possibility of a serious recession." To prevent that, Secretary Kennedy warned that the Government would have to consider further budget cuts, tighter money and perhaps, as a last and unwelcome resort, the price and wage controls that the Administration abhors...