Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government would probably have to make political contributions taxdeductible. An alternative suggested by Louisiana's Senator Russell Long: each taxpayer would pay $1 into a national political campaign fund. In practice, a petition signed by a meaningful percentage of voters would have to be required in order to prevent marginal or merely eccentric candidates from qualifying for the funds...
Nowhere is more being done in these respects than in Los Angeles, scene of the first cataclysmic riots of the '60s. No police chief is acting more vigorously or imaginatively to prevent new outbreaks than Los Angeles' Thomas Reddin, 52, who understands that the cop today must not only be a well-trained soldier but a "streetcorner sociologist." Says Reddin: "This is the year when the public will suddenly realize that the policeman has more to do with the state of our nation than any other man on the streets today...
...loyalty to the Communist bloc; they were supposed to withdraw by the end of June, but did not. Throughout the week, Dubček was reportedly on the phone to Moscow to find out why. One report had Brezhnev bluntly telling him that the Soviet troops were needed to prevent the overthrow of Communism in Czechoslovakia...
...permission to buy a seat on the Boston Stock Exchange, where it will be the first foreign member. The bank also has applied for a seat on the Midwest Stock Exchange in Chicago and for associate membership in the Philadelphia- Baltimore-Washington Exchange. A ban on foreign members will prevent it from joining the New York Stock Exchange...
...Johnson's formula for not running is extremely shrewd: to pretend to the American people and to himself that because of a dangerous division in the country he is withdrawing to prevent that division from going further. I think that this is what the man consciously believes. I think this is an ingenious cover for his inability to admit that he has made a disastrous mistake...