Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weapons employed are not always officially approved. Some guards are trained to scatter jagged miguelitos (twisted nails) from armored cars to block off escape routes. Private security vehicles sometimes carry flamethrowers. "Some agencies use all the methods of the guerrillas," says Agrelo. "But the best weapon is to prevent an attack from occurring. If an executive knows what to look for and is trained in anti-kidnaping techniques, all the arms become almost unnecessary...
...good one. But it is probably closer to the truth to estimate, as does the American Civil Liberties Union, that only after about 2600 amendments would S.1 be palatable. Once the bill hits the Senate floor, the tedious legal process and the sheer size of S.1 will prevent more than ten amendments from being adopted. By then everyone will be weary and the bill will be put up to a vote...
...reporters. At one NSC meeting attended by Schlesinger and some of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Kissinger threw a copy of Aviation Week on the table and, shouting, demanded to know who had leaked a story headlined SOVIET TREATY VIOLATIONS DETECTED. Schlesinger, a strong advocate of tighter measures to prevent cheating on weapons agreements, claimed not to know...
...back into the cold war mentality. "But it will not be like the '50s," says Kissinger. "If there is a confrontation with the Soviet Union and we mobilize and take a stand, it will be sustainable only if the people know that we did all we could to prevent it. We have a great opportunity now. The Soviet leaders are getting older and tired. We are going the only way left...
...that Congress passed in 1972 needs to be ratified by only four more states in order to become the 27th amendment to the Constitution. But the resounding defeat of ERA in New Jersey and New York has given anti-ERA groups new impetus to renew their efforts to prevent the passage of a federal equal rights amendment...