Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist mayor of Nazareth, called for a one-day general strike in Galilee for last week. The government tried hard to prevent it; some Arabs charge that workers were threatened with loss of their jobs if they failed to show up for work. Jerusalem claimed that fewer than half the 107 Arab villages participated in the strike. But in at least a dozen communities, police and soldiers battled with angry Arabs; three of them were killed in Sakhnin and one each in Araba, Kfar Kanna and Tira...
...patrols. Residents are searched on entering and leaving; violators of the dusk-to-dawn curfew risk being shot on sight. The Smith government says the camps are to protect the tribes from terrorist intimidation. But many of the inhabitants are considered security risks and the camps are intended to prevent them from feeding and aiding the guerrillas. Meanwhile, the tribespeople complain, their farms have been left to ruin and their cattle...
Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice president for Community Affairs, said plans to build a residential housing complex on the 32-acre site in Allston result from the common desire of local residents and University officials to prevent the area from becoming over-industrialized...
...failure of private institutions to confront those problems without external pressure. The implied message is clear: discrimination, invasion of students' privacy and abuse of human subjects may or may not go on at Harvard, but they are in any case less trouble some than the government's attempt to prevent them. Bok has vigorously attacked the symptoms and even the medicine, but he has ignored or belittled the disease...
This week's riots in Peking appear to be a retaliation by China's moderate faction against desecration of a memorial to the late Premier Chou En-lai and against leftist moves to prevent Teng Hsiao-ping from succeeding Chou permanently, University Sinologists said yesterday...