Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite such pressure, there was little likelihood of any quick tightening of gun laws. Minutes before he was shot at by Moore, Ford had expressed his opposition to the registration of handguns; his press secretary reconfirmed that view afterward. Although gun controls could help prevent many spur of the moment murders, few experts thought such laws would have any short-term impact on the danger of assassinations; the gains would be long run. For now, those most likely to use guns against a President would be least likely to register or surrender the ones they have...
...moment in Bonn comes not from assassins but anarchist-terrorist bands of kidnapers, who might try to spirit off Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Both Schmidt and senior Cabinet officers could be held for release of some of the more than 100 hard-core anarchists in prison around the country. To prevent that from happening, a special security group provides 300 bodyguards for leading federal officials, their offices and homes. Trained in the use of firearms and hand-to-hand combat as well as criminal psychology and identification, officers sit outside the door to Schmidt's office, precede and follow...
Awaiting Trial. Franco responded to the terrorism by increasing security forces and setting up strict border watches to prevent infiltration of political dissidents from France and Portugal. In recent weeks there have been elaborate roundups of suspected terrorists in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao, with as many as 82 arrests in a single day. An estimated 200 now await trial by military tribunals...
...years, plus a guarantee that the school board will not fire teachers engaged in the strike. The arrested teachers were released on $500 bail-but only after they had signed forms promising to remain in their homes from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. That restriction, designed to prevent them from picketing, was overturned as unconstitutional later in the week. Still, many teachers were astounded by the city's tough tactics. For example, John Lennox, assistant football coach at Wilmington High, who was arrested for violating the curfew, says he was at the teachers' union office only...
...odds actually remain slim that the GSD will emerge from the thicket of charge and countercharge that has surrounded it for so long. There are several reasons why escape appears unlikely. First, the long report of the Hartman Review Committee suffers from ambiguity and information gaps that will prevent the faculty from resolving the affair without another in-depth review. Secondly, broad questions of what due process and academic freedom mean in practical application requires University-level study and definition and not merely an ad hoc faculty decision on Hartman's charges. Finally, a clean break with a muddy past...