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...Forum. Although he had been quizzed repeatedly by Justice Department investigators and a federal grand jury in Washington, McCord, who is fighting to stave off a long prison sentence, saved his charges against the President for a new and formidable forum: the hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. McCord did not claim that he had had any direct communication with the President before or after the bugging and burglarizing of Democratic National Headquarters at the Water gate last June 17. Always, McCord's allegations of presidential concern involved word from an intermediary...
...stave off potential chaos, the state legislature created the Adirondack Park Agency, which last year prepared a preliminary land-use plan. All the private lands in the park area were classified under six categories, and density limits for development were fixed for four of them; in general, future growth will be allowed mainly around existing towns. These designations were based on a detailed inventory of such environmental factors as soil, slopes, water resources, wildlife and the potential for sewage disposal. The plan transcended simple zoning; it was in fact the most ambitious attempt ever to make development compatible with nature...
Eventually shortages of fuel and breakdowns of the transportation system produced growing food shortages as farmers were unable to ship their products to the country's great urban centers. The stock market plummeted. Industrial growth came to a standstill. The Government, attempting to stave off a collapse of the national economy, imposed rigid guidelines for prices, wages and profits. Critics of these policies were severely penalized under new antisedition laws that virtually nullified the First Amendment. The U.S., in effect, became a totalitarian state...
...there it stayed. Although the momentum was obviously Princeton's, Harvard stalled when it had the ball to stave off the final splurge...
...years, much of sub-Saharan Africa is stalked by the grim specter of famine. This year has been one of the worst. A 40-month drought has left the area brown and blistered. Crops have failed; millions of cattle have died. Thousands of farmers are eating seed grains to stave off starvation, thus ensuring that there will be insufficient food from future harvests. In lands where suicide is rare, starving nomads, after losing their herds, have killed themselves in desperation...