Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More problems came Parkhurst's way last spring, when, he says, the Justice Department attempted to seize all the records of the magazine. The reason given was to prevent another shutdown scheduled for the middle of May; but Parkhurst feels the attempt's real purpose was to discover sources used in an article detailing certain questionable connections between Attorney General William Saxbe and the Teamsters. Overdrive filed a countersuit against Saxbe alleging possible violations of Constitutional rights, and the case was dropped...
...society becomes more "civilized," the cohesive group feeling begins to deteriorate in the face of the luxury and diversity of pursuits that become available. Mao Tse-tung might well be a student of Ibn-Khaldun; he deliberately plunged China into the tumultuous Cultural Revolution of 1966-69 to prevent precisely the sort of deterioration foreseen by the Berber sage. But Ibn-Khaldun also warned that such interventions would prove futile...
...bothered except a select group of officials and aristocrats who were on a 200-name master list of wanted men. Soldiers stood guard at banks and at the airport-to prevent rich depositors from closing out accounts over $5,000 or fleeing the country. Radio and television stations were under military control, but no mention of the quiet takeover was broadcast. Aging Emperor Haile Selassie, who was crowned the nation's absolute ruler in 1930, made no effort to oppose the military...
...mayor of New Orleans since 1970, governs with the help of a coalition of blacks, white liberals and blue-collar workers. A keenly instinctual politician, Landrieu was elected to the Louisiana legislature at 29 and won notoriety by standing almost alone against a bundle of bills that sought to prevent compliance with federal desegregation orders. As chairman of the legislative action committee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, he helped to negotiate federal revenue-sharing money for cities...
...youngest Republican member of the House of Representatives in 1973. Despite his youth, the Baylor-educated Steelman was a major force behind legislation requiring Senate confirmation of the director of the Office of Management and Budget and of the deputy director. Steelman led a successful fight last year to prevent construction of a $1.6 billion, ecologically damaging barge canal between Dallas and the Gulf of Mexico. Because his district has been redrawn and is now 60% Democratic, he faces a tough re-election fight...