Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vellucci said he thought that the limited hours set aside for the new mall would prevent objections from businesses...
...room and are taken outside only for interrogation. "It was so crowded that you had to sleep standing up, and when I got out for a while I could not sleep lying down," Toai says. Hieu adds, "They leave very bright lights on the celling all night long to prevent you from falling asleep, and there isn't enough air to breathe--under these conditions the prisoners wish to have any opportunity to do heavy work outside...
Prison officials used sophisticated methods of psychological control to compel obedience and prevent escapes, the men say. These officials reduced the number of guards needed by telling the prisoners their families would suffer arrest and torture if the prisoners misbehaved. "The most inhuman torture in not to torture the prisoner himself but to torture his relatives in front of him," Toai notes. With this psychological pressure in force, Hieu says, prison doors stayed unlocked, and only one or two guards patrolled the area, which used neither barbed wire nor other security precautions...
...taken over, the episode raised new doubts about the security of the 77 advanced F-14 fighters that the U.S. has supplied to Iran. No American has been allowed to inspect them for three weeks, in part because the Iranians fear an attempt to destroy the equipment to prevent any possibility of its falling into Soviet hands. But the Carter Administration privately admits that there is little it can do to safeguard the planes. "They are entirely in the hands of the Iranians," said a U.S. intelligence officer last week. "They bought them, and they own them...
...Federal Government has a considerable regulatory apparatus to prevent nuclear radiation poisoning. Nothing is being done about dioxin, and it is just as toxic and there is a lot more of it around." So complained Victor J. Yannacone, Jr., the lawyer who got DDT banned...