Word: prevented
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...hemispheric affairs that is usually taken to mean we must prevent communism from jumping to the North American mainland. Well, great. But even assuming communism is like a weather front or measles, spreadable as pollen on the wind, we may be more responsible for its currency in the Third World than the Soviets. I found Nicaraguans much fonder of Americans than of Russians, but far angrier at the U.S. Government than at anything the USSR has done. Nicaragua is a country where veneration for Marx, though well advanced in some circles, is considerably less than the veneration for the Virgin...
...military-resupply operation, which may take about four weeks; 2) the Iran arms deals and who may have been responsible for the diversion of profits to the contras, running into August; 3) a wrap-up period exploring the lessons learned and what legislation, if any, might be needed to prevent a similar breakdown in the orderly and accountable conduct of foreign policy. The committee should be finished by Labor...
...sides were saying that some individual cases can still be won on appeal, but no other broad-based challenge is likely soon. The court has agreed to decide whether the death penalty can be applied against juveniles, but only about 33 prisoners would be affected. While individual challenges may prevent the death row floodgates from opening all at once this year, the consolidation of capital punishment appears nearly complete. The Justices writing last week seemed to know that. Summoning particular eloquence, Dissenter Brennan said, "It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate...
Higher education officials rejectAdministration claims that controls on scientificinformation are needed to prevent Soviet agentsfrom gaining information vital to this country'snational security...
...Mousetrap with the arrival of Mr. Paravicini (played by the lively Peter Pappas) and Detective Sergeant Trotter (Ian Thornley). Trotter fears a murder will take place at the manor because of a notebook indicating the manor found at the scene of the London murder and is out to prevent...