Word: avoiding
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...embargoes on food and high technology sales. Defense Secretary Harold Brown told NATO he had no doubt that "the West would also have to react by further building up its military capability." He won support for this even from the French. In a strong communique deliberately left unspecific to avoid provoking Moscow, the NATO foreign ministers warned that detente "could not survive if the Soviet Union were again to violate the basic rights of any state to territorial integrity and independence. Poland should be free to decide its own future...
...like WELCOME BACK COMRADE BREZHNEV - TRUE FRIEND OF INDIA. The ailing 73-year-old Soviet leader, who had difficulty in walking unassisted, also experienced problems in reaching his residence. Instead of a triumphal motorcade, police had to whisk the Soviet leader through the back streets of the capital to avoid demonstrations by Afghan refugees carrying banners that read CRIMINAL BREZHNEV...
...laden code favored by Webster's and American Heritage. Franklin might be less pleased with the OAD because he doesn't appear in it. The editors mysteriously decided to include the spellings of every nation in the world and their capitals (Umtata is the capital of Transkei) but to avoid all personal names except those of the 40 Presidents of the United States. Vice-presidents (too bad for fans of George Mifflin Dallas, Polk's v.p.) don't make it; and Ronald Reagan didn't make press time...
...United Sates must act now to avoid the economic catastrophe that would result from a cut-off of Persian Gulf oil, a book released yesterday by a team of Harvard experts contends...
...resistance that the conservatives can soften their foes for future clashes. He outlines four basic issues Reagan and his Congressional allies must address to satisfy the loyal legions of the far right: achieving "military superiority" over the Soviet Union before attempting further arms limitations talks; balancing the budget to avoid the 25-per-cent inflation Phillips sees looming in the near future; "reversing" our Latin American policy, giving less emphasis to human rights and more to resisting communist aggression; and, finally, cutting off funds to "left-wing groups that are improperly feeding at the public trough...