Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killing of the ten hostages, no one for the killing of the 29 inmates, no state official or trooper or guard for indiscriminate firing or carelessness or man slaughter, no one for failing to provide medical care--although the authorities knew the attack was coming--or for failing to prevent reprisals after the attack. Instead, the Grand Jury has indicted 61 of the Attica inmates for enmes ranging from murder to kidnapping to sodomy in over 1400 counts of criminal action...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, circulated guidelines this week to prevent unlawful University interference in the Medical Area union organizing effort...
...clause"?a promise by the purchaser not to sell weapons to a third party without permission of the original exporting state?has had only limited success. Washington has been unable to prevent Pakistan from using American-supplied arms against India, even though the original transfer agreement with Islamabad specifically forbade it. The end-use clause obviously did not prevent Libya from loaning its French-made Mirages to Egypt for use against Israel...
LASER-GUIDED ARTILLERY: The Army is enthusiastic about the potential of a newly developed 155-mm. shell. Fired from a conventional cannon, the 6-in. shell sprouts tail fins and small forward wings to prevent spinning. It can be aimed up to 500 yds. wide of a target illuminated with a laser beam projected by a forward observer. A "seeker" in the nose of the shell picks up the laser reflection, controls the fins and thus guides the shell to the target. Another application of the laser is giving tank guns more accurate range finders. Once they get a target...
Downey, hassled by academic scheduling problems that may prevent her from competing in the nationals next week in Arizona, finished third in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:18. This was her best time and a new Radcliffe record. She also finished eleventh after qualifying seventh in the 50 backstroke...