Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prevent somebody else from discovering a Ford Doctrine...
...crowds poured into the streets of Portuguese cities as the confrontation between moderates and Communists intensified late last week. In Oporto, the country's second largest city, 75,000 Socialists rallied to proclaim their support of democracy. Communist roadblocks of barbed wire and nail-studded planks failed to prevent the mass gathering. Meanwhile, about 35 miles north of Lisbon, angry mobs sacked the offices and burned the files of the Communist Party in both Lourinhà and Cadaval. At week's end, amid rumors of an impending coup, the country's military leaders sought to defuse...
...ROLE IN SPAIN: We cannot understand the policy of the United States. It seems that there is an accord between the superpowers to prevent progressive forces from coming to power in Western Europe. The radicalization in Portugal is to a great degree the fault of the Americans. They could have stopped...
...threat of ghetto riots is less of a worry than a newer danger: bankruptcy. At the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Boston last week, San Francisco's Joseph Alioto warned some 350 anxious municipal chiefs, "The seeds of New York are in every American city." To prevent a bitter harvest, the mayors called for yet more federal aid to augment increasingly burdensome local taxes. They urged Congress to pass President Ford's proposal to share $39.8 billion in federal revenues with states and cities over the next six years. They also endorsed two Democratic antirecession measures...
...organization that has become the largest opposition party in the country and whose leaders are now in jail. Speaking in New Delhi, she declared: "There are people in this country who have tried to put every kind of pressure and obstacle in the path of our forward development." To prevent her opponents from "seizing power [and] bypassing democratic methods," she argued, she had to take democracy "somewhat off the rails." So far, however, Mrs. Gandhi has provided no real evidence of a sizable conspiracy. Although police raids of the offices of extremist parties produced caches of weapons, they hardly seemed...