Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alignments for a coming global war are ominously being sketched on the horizon. The task of Marxists is not to hide this terrible reality but to tell the simple truth: only workers revolution can prevent nuclear annihilation...
...facts. The article was quickly passed from DOE'S technical experts to its legal staff. "The reaction was pretty amazing and swift," recalls a DOE official. The department informed the Progressive that publication of the material would be "contrary to the United States' efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons." DOE urged the magazine to cooperate in modifying parts of the story that dealt with secret information. Claiming that the public needs details on the H-bomb in order to debate nuclear policy, the Progressive refused to budge. Government lawyers then asked U.S. District Judge Robert Warren...
...America's invisible rich, worth about $200 million. Although a star suspect who was described by a federal investigator as in it up to his neck," Alkek avoided criminal charges by cooperating with the authorities and pleading a weak heart (a condition that did not prevent a dove-hunting trip in Mexico). Alkek admitted knowing about and not reporting the fraud and destroying a letter that would have documented the crime. After plea bargaining, he was given only a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to refund $3.2 million of his excessive profits. The refunds will probably be deductible...
...with the power company's P.R. man. Fonda and Douglas keep trying to get the story out, and Lemmon joins their effort. The accident has alerted him to serious problems in the plant's safety precautions and he finds that inspection documents have been falsified. Lemmon tries, unsuccessfully, to prevent the plant from starting up again. As in any good thriller, Fonda, Douglas, and Lemmon meet again at the power plant in a stunning conclusion...
...government was established to provide for the general welfare of the people while allowing for the individual freedom which differentiates the United States from many other nations. It was not established to prevent individuals from trying the limits of their capabilities...