Word: preventing
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Though Church could impede SALT's progress, he cannot prevent a majority of his committee's members from sending the treaty to the Senate floor for a vote. This could turn out to be the Administration's strategy. Said Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia: "My timetable for SALT is not in the slightest changed by all this shaking and trembling" about Cuba. He insists that the Senate will consider and vote on the treaty by Thanksgiving. Byrd also has met separately with at least two dozen fellow Senators, pleading with them to consider SALT...
That revolutionary rhetoric is the product of the 1910 revolution, which lasted eleven years, and, by some accounts, killed more than 1 million Mexicans. One of its lasting products was the constitution, written in 1917, that is still the country's basic charter. To prevent the rise of another Diaz-like strongman, it prohibits the re-election of most public officials, including the President. To protect the country's "patrimony" from foreign domination, it limits the ownership of land and natural resources to Mexican citizens. In the name of social progress, it promises free universal education and the restoration...
Founded in 1929 by the republic's second postrevolutionary President, Plutarco Elias Calles, and shaped by a leftist successor, Lázaro Cárdenas, the P.R.I, was designed to prevent political disagreements from bursting into violence by drawing organizations that represented workers, campesinos and civil servants into its leadership. This corporatist approach has enjoyed remarkable success at the polls: the P.R.I, has never lost a major election, or even been threatened by the country's feeble opposition parties. But the price of P.R.I, dominance has been high. Says a prominent Mexican lawyer: "Politics has been the restricted domain of the official...
...book, Gofman has brought his concept of nuclear "murder" to the trial of protestors who scaled a fence at the Rancho Seco plant in California. Swayed by Gofman's testimony, the jury acquitted one defendant on the grounds that he had reason to believe his crime was necessary to prevent a substantial and immediate danger to life and property...
...Direct Action at Seabrook, an outgrowth of the Clamshell Alliance, called the occupation. Local Clam groups around New England are the main sponsors, and over 80 other groups around the nation have endorsed the action. The goal of the occupation is to enter the plant site and physically prevent further construction by remaining there indefinitely. Our strength lies in our numbers, and in the clarity of our vision-- to create, with the help of the local populace, an antinuclear community of people building, gardening, living and experimenting on the site, in the model of the successful European nuclear site occupations...