Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Health Ministry officials blamed the outbreak (at week's end it had not yet reached epidemic proportions) not on contaminated drinking water, but on shellfish. Most of the victims, they explained, had eaten mussels, which were apparently taken from polluted waters around Italy and in North Africa. To prevent the disease from spreading any further, officials banned the sale and importation of shellfish throughout Italy and ordered large mussel beds in the Bay of Naples destroyed...
...really ironic how, after all the criticizing, Agnew runs straight back to the press to use it to prevent his own downfall...
...back of an open truck. Later, he was executed by an officer who fired a .45-cal. bullet into his temple. The government rounded up eleven other plotters and also shot them. Ironically, the coup's failure could hasten the kind of Laotian peace that it sought to prevent. Souvanna has emerged with his position strengthened by the firm support of the U.S. and the army...
...bombing resumes, the alliance will form once again. But if, as is more likely, Watergate and Congress prevent the resumption of the aerial genocide, the war will have disappeared. Barring another brutal American intervention in the Third World in the near future, radicalism on campus will pull up abruptly at a temporary stasis, probing gently for new outlets, a new basis for the alliance...
Even without ROTC, nothing exists to prevent military men from spending time in liberal arts colleges--as many do--or to prevent Congress from authorizing more scholarships to induce non-ROTC students to pledge long terms of military service...