Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...covert actions only when U.S. security is clearly in jeopardy. William T.R. Fox, professor of international relations at Columbia University, would additionally permit them "to undo the spread of Hitler and other like governments." Dean Harvey Picker of Columbia's School of International Affairs would allow clandestine operations to prevent nuclear war. As Senator Church points out, however, the "national security considerations must be compelling" for covert action to be justified. For his part, Colby declines to say under what precise circumstances he would favor covert action...
Regional nationalism, a once quixotic movement that has intensified and turned serious in the past three years, could also prevent a Tory or Labor majority. The Welsh nationalists currently have two members in the House and could pick up a third. The Scottish National Party, which won 22% of the vote in Scotland last February, now has seven seats at Westminster; some observers believe that they could double that number next month. Labor and the Conservatives are both trying to cut into the Scottish Nationalists' constituency by promising an impressive range of public-works projects for Scotland. Moreover...
...CONSTANTLY changing backgrounds of embassies, boarding schools, and airports have accustomed the Richardsons to looking at life this way. They have not been allowed to settle into routines which would prevent them from every once in a while spinning out of themselves and looking, as if far away, at what they are doing. Sometimes this is felt as alienation and each one passes through withdrawal, but the final result is commitment...
According to the Chilean election law, when nobody gets a majority, the two highest candidates go to the Congress. The Congress then votes in a secret ballot and elects the president. That election is October 24. In Chilean history, there is nothing to prevent it, and it would not be at all illogical for the Congress to say, "Sixty-four per cent of the people did not want a Communist government. A Communist government tends to be irreversible. Therefore we are going to vote for the number two man." This is perfectly within their constitutional prerogatives. However, the constitutional habit...
Over the 1962 to 1973 period, the 40 Committee (an interdepartmental body that reviews and authorizes all covert CIA activities and is chaired by the President's Advisor on National Security Affairs) authorized the expenditure of approximately $11 million to help prevent the election of Allende and, in Mr. Colby's words, "destabilize" the Allende government so as to precipitate its downfall. The agency activities in Chile were viewed as a prototype, or laboratory experiment, to test the techniques of heavy financial investment in efforts to discredit and bring down a government...