Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regime fails to prevent a clash between rival political groups, Spain's military commanders may feel compelled to step in. Although kept deliberately apolitical by Franco, the officer corps is believed to be solidly loyal to el Caudillo's plans for the succession. Unlike Portugal's officers, they have not been radicalized by exposure to Marxist rebels in a losing African colonial war. The new King, in fact, is reportedly popular with the officers...
...sales to the Soviets would not be lifted. But when the deal was announced many farmers angrily branded it unjustified Government interference in world grain markets. They objected to the requirement that the Soviets negotiate before buying more than 8 million tons a year, contending that the limit would prevent them from recouping sales lost during the moratorium...
Danehy's proposed rent control revision would do away with the present board, and set up instead a review committee "with teeth in it" to prevent unfair rates. He is against more public housing, and feels that some projects should even be torn down because the city is so "super-saturated" with them...
Wylie has also struggled to keep rent control, opposing the landlords "to protect the elderly and low income renters." To prevent Cambridge residents from being swallowed by a "sea of signs," Wylie has taken on much of the business establishment...
Paul S. Appelbaum, a fourth year medical student, circulated the petition which has 46 signatures. Applebaum said yesterday, that orthodox students walk to services in Brookline and then return for Saturday classes where religious beliefs prevent their taking notes...