Word: preventing
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Chile's General Rene Schneider. In October 1970, Schneider, commander in chief of Chile's army, was killed while resisting a kidnaping attempt. President Nixon in September had ordered the CIA "to play a direct role in organizing a military coup in Chile to prevent [Salvador] Allende's accession to the presidency," and the kidnaping was viewed as an indispensable and unavoidable element in that coup. As it happened, the CIA five days before had withdrawn its support of the particular group that pulled off the kidnaping that resulted in the general's death...
...tried to prevent King's audience with Pope Paul VI in September 1964. Using New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman as a conduit, the agency sent disparaging word of King's morals to the Pope, but he did not cancel the audience. The FBI also tried to persuade two universities to withdraw honorary degrees that they planned to award to King. It is not known if they complied...
Riccardo's ultimatum was an act of corporate chutzpah: Wilson's Labor government is responsible for Chrysler's troubles only in the sense that it has been unable to prevent the inflation and recession that have added to the company's woes. Chrysler also has many troubles of its own. Since it came to Britain in 1964, it has introduced only one genuinely new car, the rather ordinary five-passenger Avenger sedan; its two other models-the Volkswagen-like Imp and the Hunter-were developed by Rootes Motors Ltd., the company that Chrysler bought. Accordingly, Chrysler...
...involving only kicking, were unsure of how to hold and tackle. When Yale succeeded finally in grasping the fundamentals, Fair Harvard accused them of unnecessary roughness. Even the ball did not cooperate fully, losing its air at enough critical junctures to keep Yale scoreless, but not often enough to prevent the Crimson from scoring four goals and as many touchdowns...
...Boston tailor went to work. Harvard surprised the Elis by appearing at the 1893 game in new waterproof uniforms, much to the displeasure of Yale all-American "Pudge" Heffelfinger '93, who was attending his first game as a recent alumnus. "Pudge," thinking the leather had been employed solely to prevent those Harvard sissies from bodily harm, bounded onto the field soon after the game had started and began tearing uniforms off the players backs. Bedlam erupted for several minutes, but order was eventually restored and the game continued...