Word: prevented
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...situation room" beneath the White House. It also means that greater freedom of action in routine matters will be entrusted to the operating departments, particularly State. Nixon, said Kissinger, "urged me to make sure that his staff and his advisers free themselves for long-range thinking to prevent crises from happening, rather than spend all of their energies on managing crises that might have been avoided...
...Communists see it, that arrangement would enhance the guerrillas' claim to independent status. The Allies apparently see it the same way. They want two rectangular tables, with the U.S. and South Viet Nam seated at one, and North Viet Nam and the N.L.F. at the other, to prevent the guerrillas from getting a whole side of a table to themselves. It might have seemed absurd, but in the past, conferences on grave issues have foundered over such trivial "modalities" (see box). And as Hanoi Spokesman Xuan Thuy noted, "Whether it is important or not, it must be resolved...
...newest Israeli countermeasure is an electronic barrier that stretches about 40 miles along the Jordan River Valley. The fence is a smaller version of the one that former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara once envisioned putting up in Viet Nam below the DMZ to prevent North Vietnamese infiltration. It consists of an outer line of 8-ft.-high barbed wire and an inner, 5-ft.-high line 10 yds. away. The space between is laced with mines. At irregular intervals along the fence are strung electronic sensing devices, which raise an alarm in adjacent guard posts when an infiltrator tries...
scription of the school's condition. Bands of pickets roamed the campus, seeking to prevent nonmilitant students from entering classrooms. Although his predecessors had been reluctant to use police to restore order, Hayakawa-backed strongly by a majority of the trustees of California's state colleges and by Governor Ronald Reagan-had no such compunction. On Tuesday, police arrested 32 protesters, ten of whom were injured in a melee; two days later, 23 more were carted off to jail. The maintenance of order was helped by a Committee for an Academic Environment, organized by proadministration students. Wearing blue...
Kunstler's critics say that his briefs can be careless and his arguments farfetched. For example, he was a leading member of the team of lawyers who last summer asked a federal court to prevent Columbia University from disciplining its own campus demonstrators. U.S. District Judge Marvin Frankel described the team's arguments as "at best useless and at worst deeply pernicious nonsense in courts...