Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Second Thoughts. At that point, the U.S. Government, apparently in an attempt to avoid handing Castro a propaganda weapon, continued the hush-up begun by Jackson and Szili. Jackson was denied a court-martial; its findings would have been public. Instead, Jackson, with only 18 months to go before completing 20 years of service and becoming eligible for a pension of $260 a month, was forced to resign from the Corps. So were Szili and two other officers who had helped bury Lopez. Jackson, said Szili, has made no public complaint because "he is a very patriotic...
...opportunism. Indeed, inasmuch as it advocates belief in propositions that provide satisfaction, it is the age-old philosophy of the common man. The opportunist who cares not a white either for ethics or selfconsistency might be termed a "soft" to get into trouble. The "hard" pragmatist seeks to avoid the eventual plight of his less scrupulous comrade by two tactics. First, he looks upon life as a constant quest for new and higher values. Secondly, he remains ever flexible, ever ready to adjust his ideas in order that the new values may be incorporated into a coherent world scheme...
...CUBA. The Administration's central objective, essentially negative, is to avoid any action on Cuba that might lead to an armed clash with Russia. That objective extends even to blocking Cuban exile raids from U.S. territory. Only a few weeks ago the President reiterated earlier statements that the presence of Russian troops in Cuba is "unacceptable," and that Communism in Cuba is "not negotiable." But he has not devised ways to translate those words into action, beyond efforts to tighten the economic isolation of Cuba. Last week State Department officials reported that the U.S. is preparing...
...consolidate their new territorial gains on the Plain of Jars and to let the crisis cool of its own accord. If they moved off the plain, they would surely march right into a civil war with Phoumi's rightist forces, thus inviting U.S. intervention, which they wished to avoid at all costs. Despite protests by both Souvanna and the U.S., the Pathet Lao's territorial grab was a fait accompli. There were those in the U.S. who thought the only long-range answer to the Laos problem was outright partition. Already a de facto partition of Laos existed...
...plain is named for the scores of large, stone burial urns dotting the area, in which the ancestral ashes of the Laotian people were once deposited. Both the Pathet Lao and the neutralists avoid fighting near the jars, for Laotian tradition holds that the penalty for disturbing them is a violent and fiery retribution from the spirits within...