Word: prevented
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...these past events is a matter of note. What particularly rankles most members of the Foreign Relations Committee is the suspicion that they were not given all the facts about reported attacks on U.S. destroyers before approving the Golf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the President broad authority to "prevent further aggression" in Southeast Asia. The Administration claims that resolution to be the "functional equivalent" of a declaration of war on North Viet...
...Battle of the Tet offensive does not come at Khesanh, or if the U.S. faces a crucial major battle in an area where the terrain doesn't prevent effective use of nukes, Pentagon officials have suggested they would recommend nuclear weapons as a last resort...
...resolution states that despite a need for U.S. presence in Southeast Asia to aid in economic development and prevent the spread of Communism, "our presence in Asia can only be effective in countries where the government commands a strong indigenous support and the force of nationalism is allied with our cause...
HIGH SCHOOLS Teen-Agers on the Rampage A rash of violence, most of it racial, is spreading among high schools from California to Maine. Last week police patrolled high schools in New Haven, Conn., to prevent a revival of fist-swing ing, china-shattering riots that had erupted in the cafeterias of two schools the week before, disrupting classes and causing 30 arrests. About the same time, most of the 2,372 students of Chicago's predominantly Negro Dunbar Vocational High rallied in the streets, stopped traffic, threw rocks at cars; many abandoned classes...
...Arab-Israeli eruption of last June was a pop war, unless you happened to be an Arab or an Israeli, and a pop war novel about it is a provocation no truce commission could have been expected to prevent. Meyer Levin (Compulsion) has fired off a rooty-tooty, pot-woozy, never-trust-anyone-whose-eyes-still-focus novel about how it wasn't in the Sinai campaign...