Word: preventing
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There was not the faintest hope that Saigon could yet reverse the tide of the battle; the military situation in favor of the Communists was unquestionably irreversible. Nor was there any chance that the U.S. might intervene to prevent a Communist takeover. After more than two decades of various degrees of American involvement in Viet Nam, President Ford last week declared with utter finality that for the U.S., the war was over. A massive Communist force, which had closed in on Saigon from all sides with staggering speed, lay waiting after abruptly halting its advance. Unmistakably, the battlefield lull meant...
Horner said the Trustees also spent a long time discussing some of the proposals now being considered for changes in the undergraduate housing system. She said that she believes the most important problem in assessing the proposals is to prevent them from becoming a "Harvard Radcliffe question...
...Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this...
...latest repressive measures reflect new elements of uncertainty within the Park government. South Korea was genuinely shocked that the U.S. did not intervene to prevent the collapse of South Viet Nam and Cambodia. Even though the U.S. still maintains 40,000 troops and keeps tactical nuclear weapons in the country for defense against a possible invasion, there is concern over the strength of the American commitment. Moreover, since 1971 the U.S. has given only $792 million of a promised $1.5 billion for modernizing Seoul's armed forces...
Like most Hiroshimans, Shigeto is a pacifist. He believes that "the nobility of human spirit will surely prevent" another Hiroshima. "Isn't it strange," he says, "that the worst disaster in human history should have turned me into a helpless optimist?" Indeed, despite his city's ordeal, Shigeto has been so impressed by the strength and courage displayed by Hiroshima's victims that he has unbounded faith in man's prospects for survival. That feeling was bolstered recently when he learned that the first two victims he treated after the blast are still alive today...