Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military threat to South Africa. Yet France and others continue to arm South Africa. Why is the U.S. so worried about tiny Cuba? Or is Cuba being used as a cover-up to arm South Africa? I tell you, brother, if South Africa uses its army to prevent Rhodesia from becoming free, then we have the right to ask for support from anywhereelse-and from much bigger powers than Cuba...
...defense of the breakin, Maihofer cited a constitutional clause authorizing "interventions" when needed "to prevent imminent danger." Three times in 1975, he noted, terrorists had attempted to invade nuclear facilities in France...
...group decreed a state of emergency, requisitioned food stocks, shut off all gas mains in the capital, and closed the university, presumably to create temporary shelter for the homeless and wounded. Troops cordoned off major portions of the downtown area to protect people from falling masonry, and possibly to prevent looting. Sports stadiums in the city were converted into makeshift hospitals, and more than 50 American medical students in the country were among those pressed into relief service...
...opportunity to understand their own culture and to gain knowledge of their own worth. This rings true at Harvard as well as in the larger society; the dominant group consists of white, upper class males, and it was members of this group, the Harvard Administration, which tried to prevent the establishment of a department in Afro-American Studies, and is still trying to whittle that department down...
...history, the film is both more accurate and more coherent than the wonderfully rambling, episodic book on which it is based. Woody had an active imagination and appreciated a good story; the fact that an incident had never really occurred apparently did not always prevent him from retelling it. Not too surprisingly, he also tends to leave out important details that point up a darker, less appealing side of his character...