Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that he will have to speak to Wacker about the results of the tests before he can recommend procedures to prevent similar incidents in the future...
...supplemented by funds raised by the state of Israel through the heaviest taxation in the world. To argue against the humanitarian work of the Israel Emergency Fund because Israel must buy arms and maintain armed forces to defend itself is vicious or stupid: such an argument would prevent aid to any nation on earth, even if its people were starving, because all maintain armed forces for their defense...
...along with the refugees, the government is setting up guard posts on the roads leading into Saigon to keep out any additional outsiders. Cyclos (pedicabs) have been banned because the government fears that Communist sappers might use them to transport satchel charges into the city. In an effort to prevent riots or a possible coup attempt, new army orders forbid civilians to congregate in groups on the streets or off-duty soldiers to carry their weapons in the capital. Many Saigonese fear rape and rampage by their own troops as much as they dread an invasion by the Viet Cong...
...cutbacks in U.S. military aid ? fatally undermined ARVN's confidence. According to one line of argument, that same scarcity made it impossible for ARVN to continue the tactics learned from the U.S. ? constant harassment and interdiction of Communist troops to keep them off balance and to prevent them from massing in numbers capable of launching a coordinated, deadly offensive. Ceilings were placed on the number of shells that field guns and mortars could fire daily, and there was a severe cutback in helicopter and warplane missions in order to conserve fuel and because of a lack of spare...
...Constantinople Treaty of 1888, if there is a state of belligerency between Egypt and any other country, that country is not permitted to use the canal. Even if [the Israelis] ask for their cargoes to pass through in other flagships, we have the full legal right to prevent it. But when the canal is opened it will depend on the conduct of Israel whether their nonstrategic cargoes will be allowed to transit the canal...