Word: prevented
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...HOLOCAUST, by Nora Levin; and WHILE SIX MILLION DIED, by Arthur D. Morse. The familiar chronicling of Nazi terror against European Jewry takes a grim turn closer to home with documentation showing that Allied governments, including the U.S., refused to take action to prevent the genocide...
Generally, though, by applying lessons learned the hard way during the riots of past summers, the newscasters made a concerted and largely commendable effort to prevent the fire next time from happening now. In Los Angeles, for example, where the 1965 outbreak in Watts was a case study for broadcasters in how not to cover a riot, KABC refrained from running any footage of riots on its local newscasts. Says News Director Baxter Ward: "I'll keep an inflammatory scene out no matter how newsworthy it is. I figure we can be newsmen the rest of the year...
...added that if anyone at Harvard needed more recognition, it was "the militant political activists whose demonstrations and acts of protest are about the only safety valve to prevent our government from getting us into World War III or into a civil war between blacks and whites...
...that 80 per cent of the 400 people in the audience did not agree that "Vietnam is a test case for 'Wars of National Liberation,'" 87 per cent denied that "the war helps to contain Chinese influence," and 86 per cent disagreed with the statement that "the war helps prevent the spread of communism into other areas of Asia." Fifty per cent of the audience indicated support for "an immediate U.S. withdrawal" from Vietnam, and 88 per cent voted for "gradual and unilateral U.S. troop withdrawal under the umbrella of negotiations." To the question "does escalation of the war increase...
...minority group students hardly fulfill the Ed School's responsibility to the ghetto, nor can they sufficiently sensitize a School of 800. Money problems may temporarily prevent the recruitment of more students, but the arguments of unrecognized competence and unique perspective--now used to justify seeking out students--apply at the Faculty level. Until the Ed School starts hiring black and Puerto Rican Faculty, it will not be meeting its obligation to the cities or to itself...