Word: prevented
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WASHINGTON--President Bush's national security adviser and an attorney for Manuel Noriega said yesterday they did not know what if any sensitive U.S. documents could aid the fallen dictator's defense against drug charges, but the lawyer ruled out plea bargaining to prevent their exposure...
...plea bargain would prevent a trial and possible release of documents sensitive to national security or embarrassing to the government. The potential threat of documents being released could hamper U.S. prosecutors...
...Chairman Richard Breeden announced the formation of a new 25-person SEC unit to combat securities violations at financial institutions. One of the group's goals: to prevent more disasters like the case of Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose chairman, Charles Keating, managed to run up $2.5 billion in losses, driving the California thrift into bankruptcy. With S&Ls foundering almost daily, the gesture seems like an afterthought -- and an undersized one at that...
...hardly impartial, few military experts dissent from their glowing assessments of Operation Just Cause. The praise was a welcome shift. Except for the U.S. air strike on Libya in 1986, American military performance since Viet Nam has been miserable. In 1983 commanders in Lebanon failed to erect defenses to prevent a mere truck from crashing into a Marine barracks and killing 241 American servicemen with a load of explosives. The invasion of Grenada that same year was ultimately successful, but so botched that 18 Americans died even though the island was defended only by a ragtag of Cuban construction workers...
...called it a Christmas pilgrimage to the Holy Land. But Archbishop Desmond Tutu has never allowed his religious calling to prevent him from actively engaging in politics in South Africa, his home, and he behaved no differently abroad. To the studied discomfort of the Israeli government, which maintains close ties to Pretoria, Tutu used his visit to the Jewish state to air some outspokenly pro-Palestinian views...