Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas H. Weller, Strong Professor of Public Health, who isolated the german measles virus, said in a statement, "The passage of this bill would effectively stop ongoing studies on methods to prevent the current major cause of congenital brain damage, hearing loss and blindness...
...with the perspective made possible by a year of "peace," it's easy to see that such facts don't explain the fascination Vietnam exerted on people all over the world. People die of hunger in sub-Saharan Africa, brutally and unnecessarily, every day. Portugal's attempts to prevent its African colonies' gaining independence involve warfare as sustained and as all-encompassing as the war that swept Indochina. And torture of political prisoners, even U.S.-financed torture, isn't uncommon enough to cause much of a stir. It goes on more or less indiscriminately and without potent opposition (from Greece...
SEVEN YEARS ago Gen. William C. Westmoreland, then U.S. commander in Vietnam, told President Johnson that he could not "see any end in sight" to American involvement in Southeast Asia. He proceeded to ask Johnson for as many as 100,000 more troops to prevent South Vietnam from falling to the communists...
...current rhetoric about an "honorable peace," the Nixon administration is still bound by a fierce anti-communism which requires continued support at almost any cost of a corrupt and illegitimate dictatorship. Martin and the White House persist in maintaining that the way to resolve Vietnam's problems and prevent an ultimate communist takeover is a large infusion of military and economic...
...sanctity of the presidency itself. At the same time the effort seeks to obfuscate and obscure Nixon's own Watergate role and portray impeachment as a partisan movement spearheaded by political enemies. At a minimum, the aim is to build enough pressure on normally friendly Senators to prevent conviction on any House-approved impeachment charge...