Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peabody, by suffering their second consecutive political losses last week, showed that they cannot win. Although both have admirable records, they are apparently associated in voters' minds with the Democratic party of the 1950's. The failure of both men to win elections in the last few years will prevent their being considered for office at the next convention in 1970 and also ought to demonstrate to the convention the extent of the stigma...
...terms of costs and benefits, the provision for limitations on the use of nuclear weapons, and the proof that "the defense department can be run from the top as any large organization ought to be." The new management procedures will survive his departure, McNamara believes, because "public pressure" would prevent his successor from returning to the old hit-or-miss techniques of planning. "I don't think we can walk away from what we've done in the past five years...
...time schedule. He had selected the 120 undergraduates who would see the Secretary. He had talked with Students for a Democratic Society. He had made arrangements with House Masters, cleared agreements with the Harvard Administration, and coordinated plans with the University Police. He had aimed all his efforts to prevent what had happened just twenty minutes before. Now as he walked to rejoin the Secretary of Defense at the Law School, his sentiments were to the point: he swore...
Perhaps De Gaulle was recalling the days when his generals mutinied against the Republic in Algeria (1961) and succeeded in getting junior officers to carry out their orders. To prevent such actions in the future, General Fernand Gambiez and others have spent three years rewriting the French military code. In one of the new provisions, a soldier may refuse to punish prisoners and civilians by "cruel treatment, torture and threats." Indeed, he may be court-martialed for obeying illegal orders...
...last June extended a defendant's privilege against self-incrimination all the way back to police interrogation. A week later, in Johnson v. New Jersey, the court stated that Miranda's strict standards were not retroactive, even for prisoners who were still appealing their cases. Did this prevent all convicts who had confessed under the old rules from seeking freedom under...