Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organized crime, regrettably, is often efficient enough to avoid prosecution when it does something significantly heinous. It would be nice if big-time criminals could be locked up just because everyone knew they were big-time criminals. The Anglo-American legal system, however, doesn't work that way. But, if the "conspiracy to obstruct justice" charge sticks, maybe it does...
...would rouse the Ukrainian populace to fight the advancing Russians, Bandera set up headquarters in Berlin, while Ukrainian partisans once again fought both the Wehrmacht and the Red army in a vain effort to carve a free Ukraine out of the confusion at war's end. To avoid Russian agents, he fled to West Germany in 1945, but shuttled back and forth in various disguises between Munich and the Ukraine, bringing encouragement and funds to the partisan army, which fought on for four more years before being finally subdued by the Soviets. (Stalin's vice-lord for suppressing...
...Moscow last spring, the Nixon-tour reporters learned to their dismay that Russia's limited communications system could not handle the emergency load. Cable copy took ten hours or more to reach the U.S. To avoid such delays, the wire services and the big morning papers tied up overseas telephone lines, spent frustrating hours dictating their stories over circuits that were not only in painfully short supply but regularly went dead in the middle of transmissions...
...figures, which show the U.S. far ahead in every important industrial and mining product except coal and iron ore, are discreetly left in the background or totally ignored.* But in the last fortnight, as he meandered through Siberia on his way home to Moscow from Peking, Khrushchev could not avoid seeing for himself that his country was still far from the wonderland of the yearbooks. At Vladivostok, citizens flooded him with letters of complaint about inadequate housing and consumer goods shortages. To his open anger, Khrushchev also discovered that the local commissars had dressed up their normally bare shopwindows especially...
...Oilman Getty suddenly decided to live it up? Not at all, said he. His only purpose in buying, he told the London press, was to avoid paying those hotel bills. "I generally have a group of business associates with me, and I have worked out that our combined hotel bills will be more than is required to run a stately home. If your name is Getty, you can't expect to be allowed to live in a hotel for less than $100 a day." Retaining his composure, the Ritz manager said that customary manners leave Getty's Ritz...