Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...President during his vacation at Augusta, Ga. after a special meeting of the National Security Council, which weighed intelligence of a heavy buildup of Communist jets, tanks, artillery and small arms in Cuba (TIME, Nov. 14). Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty announced that the Navy would "seek out and prevent any intervention on the part of Communist-directed elements in the internal affairs of Guatemala and Nicaragua through the landing of armed forces or supplies from abroad." As explained by the State Department, this meant that U.S. forces would conduct a regular search of the Caribbean, but would...
Even when underwater. Polaris submarines keep constant contact with the Navy's new. long-wave (very low frequency) transmitting stations. But since the ships are on their own, the Navy has an elaborate, secret "Fail-Safe'' countdown system that would prevent any captain, or any other officer who has cracked under the tension of his job, from declaring war on his own. One key provision: no missile can be fired without the joint order of the skipper and his executive officer...
Another widely debated question, Should the U.S. prevent the seating of Red China?, is fundamentally unrealistic, Lattimore maintained. Predicting that by 1963 a majority of the General Assembly will support admission, he urged immediate and detailed consideration of strategy in place of the "traditional policy of lethargy...
Although federal aid to areas outside of science was called "beyond the report's mission," Bundy asserted, "The University must prevent the sacrifice of the social sciences and humanities when dealing in federal aid. In the main we have been successful in doing...
...girls' full names and home addresses must be kept secret, Gartner said, to insure the girls' safety and prevent threatening letters from reaching them. One of the girls received a funeral wreath C.O.D. in the mail last week. Later, a man arrived at her front door in a hearse to ask for the coffin...