Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buttoned Up. Colby believes that he can allay such fears, if the members and staffers of the House and Senate investigating committees now being set up to look into the intelligence community exercise restraint in their requests for access to secrets and prevent what they receive from being leaked...
...affair was not yet over, that the CIA would try again this summer to raise the ship (the CIA brought only part of it to the surface last summer). By reporting the story, Colby said, news organizations would inform the Soviet Union about the salvage operation, and thus prevent its success...
...events, campaigning had taken an increasingly ugly turn. Polls showed the moderate Popular Democratic Party and the center Democratic Social Party picking up nearly 60% of the vote between them, with the Communists and radical fringe trailing with a mere 15-17%. The two parties worked closely to prevent Communist maneuvering from disrupting the election process. But they were not always successful, and on a number of occasions leftist thugs broke up their rallies...
Ever since Linus Pauling proposed in 1970 that large doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) would prevent or cure the common cold, sales of the vitamin have soared, despite the widely expressed doubts of other researchers. Three reports now cast a further shadow on Pauling's theory. In one of two studies published in the A.M.A. Journal, 311 volunteers at the National Institutes of Health took part in an experiment in which about half were given one gram of vitamin C three times daily for a nine-month period; the remainder took a placebo under the same circumstances...
...former CBS News president who became a symbol of network dedication to quality journalism. Last week, for example, ABC broadcast a number of spots in which Westin, seated at a film-editing machine, asked viewers to watch the forthcoming IRS show. Yet Friendly's fame did not prevent him from resigning from CBS in 1966 because he thought the network's dedication to first-rate journalism was waning. (CBS had aired / Love Lucy reruns instead of Senate committee hearings on Viet Nam.) If ABC executives want to avoid a similar embarrassment, they will have to continue, as Westin...