Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Secretary of State Henry Kissinger begins a two-week swing through the black African nations of Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zaire, Ghana, Liberia and Senegal. Before leaving Washington, Kissinger said he would stress both U.S. commitment to a policy of black majority rule in Rhodesia and U.S. determination to prevent further Soviet or Cuban involvement in African affairs...
...riots. Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin called Gush Emunin's action a challenge to government authority and a needless affront to Arab sensitivities. Still, the government has been ambivalent about the extremist group's wish to settle on West Bank soil. It has been unable-or unwilling-to prevent the zealots from stealthily moving tents and equipment into the occupied territories and staking out three sites that are now existing communities. While condemning these illegal settlements, the government itself has sanctioned 58 Jewish paramilitary settlements, 16 of them in the Jordan Valley -despite arguments by the U.S. that these...
While Fairfax's friend Sgt. Meryll and Meryll's amorous daughter Phoebe plot his escape, the convicted sorcerer resolves to deprive his kinsman of the pecuniary benefits of his treachery by wedding an unknown bride before his execution. The rescue comes too late to prevent the marriage of Fairfax to Elsie, who was previously affianced to the jester Jack Point. Once escaped, Fairfax unhappily finds himself "free, yet in fetters held," and the plot begins to unravel in usual Gilbert and Sullivan fashion...
...programs in the humanities and social sciences, and will introduce rigorous selection procedures to reduce the number of advanced degree candidates. By further centralizing the educational system and by limiting the autonomy of individual universities, the government also hopes to expand its control over university affairs, in order to prevent recurrences of radical activities, like May 1968--and like the current movement. Since the reform is designed to "professionalize" French education by training students only in those fields where jobs are available, leaders of industry will be asked to help plan university curricula in accordance with their needs. Making this...
Ashbery's poems do not evade the real; they deny it the power to prevent other realities from being conceived...