Word: threated
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...threat was discounted by U.S. authorities in Saigon and by most South Vietnamese politicians. The greatest restraining influence against a coup is the conviction in Saigon that the Americans would wash their hands of the commitment in Viet Nam if the politicians and generals undercut the country's fragile stability by staging another government overthrow...
...estimated 200 out of every aid dollar. Rockefeller also urges that private U.S. investment, regarded with suspicion through much of Latin America, should be encouraged. U.S. tax rules could be eased, and efforts could be made to protect American investors abroad through private insurance rather than by the threat of U.S. Government sanctions...
Robert G. English, Swansea's 35-year-old public school superintendent, expects eventually to combat the threat of private schools in his district through widespread use of federal funds, particularly for remedial reading and special classes for slow learners. That way, he hopes, newly integrated black children will be able to catch up to the norm without holding up the education of better-prepared whites. "If we can show white parents that this massive integration can work without damaging their children's education," says English, "I think the public school will come out strong." That is a very...
Oilman first made contact with the FBI nearly two years ago, after becoming "concerned" about activities he observed in his job that he "considered to be a threat to the security" of the U.S. He soon found himself on the FBI payroll at about $150 a month, plus expenses. Whenever he heard of "a subversive Communist front organization, the S.D.S., or how a bunch of radicals-I knew most of the radicals -were going to burn their draft cards, I would call the FBI." He tried, he says, to keep his news and FBI work separate, but as his Bureau...
...Risk Groups. About one-fourth of all uterine cancers invade the body of the womb, usually in older women. The form that attacks the cervix (neck) of the womb may develop in women at any age from the late teens on. Because of both its greater frequency and its threat to women in their childbearing years, this type has received intensive study. The American Cancer Society's Epidemiologist E. Cuyler Hammond lists several social as well as medical factors that go with high cervical cancer rates...