Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will never complain about the wind again. I will thank God every day of my life that I am privileged to live in this Big Sky country. But what is more to the point, I will support every effort to alleviate air pollution elsewhere and to prevent it in Montana...
...Reds would use the truce to reposition their forces-as they did to move men and supplies southward-U.S. troops kept up a steady surveillance. In War Zone C 75 miles northwest of Saigon along the Cambodian border, the U.S. mounted "Operation Gadsden" shortly before Tet to prevent the buildup of the Viet Cong's tough 9th Division. Though two companies of American infantrymen were lured into an ambush and took "moderate" casualties in escaping, the U.S. sweep gained good field positions for the post-truce period. It also turned up and destroyed two camouflaged bridges crossing into...
...which you and I would both hope to serve. Nor can you do it by obviating the great concern. And above all things we must avoid action that would allow a third World War to come about. Sometimes limited action, as we all know from our domestic experiences, can prevent more tremendous holocaust. And if there is a justification for our policy, that is the justification of our policy. That is what has to be argued. Not the question that you have...
Unfortunately, President Johnson may believe that if the bombing were halted permanently, America's military position would deteriorate to a point where our negotiating position would be ruined. Our present strength, however, is based on the ability of American forces to prevent the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese from controlling most of the South's population and from seizing Saigon. This situation would not be altered appreciably if the bombing-which seems to have had a negligible effect on North Vietnam's logistical capacity -were immediately discontinued...
...involvement sufficiently to consider the alternatives: calling the police, the girl, his friends. It is irrelevant that he fails to act on his discovery; Antonioni has shown that the photographer cannot use his camera as an escape from reality. Sooner or later, the camera will record something that will prevent his complete detachment from human problems, and will involve him personally...