Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...resisted the Bay of Pigs landing only a year earlier. "I said that it would be foolish to expect the inevitable second invasion to be as badly planned and executed as the first. I warned that Fidel would crushed and said we were the only ones who could prevent such a disaster from occurring." Khrushchev found another justification: "The Americans had surrounded our own country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they would learn just what it feels like...
...squad of 15 Cambridge police dispelled a crowd of 50 sympathizers who tried unsuccessfully to prevent the eviction...
...cutbacks are being made in as uniform and as equitable a manner as possible," Diamandopoulus said, "but there are prior commitments such as union contracts which prevent completely even distribution...
...over for Canada. The police have yet to find Pierre Laporte's murderers. As for Trudeau, he still has to convince a sizable number of independence-minded French Canadians that they belong in Canada. He has already proved to everyone that he will go to considerable lengths to prevent la belle province from getting away...
...faint voice to Comrade Zhukov, 'As Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R., I request that you take Beria into custody.' 'Hands up!' Zhukov commanded Beria." The police boss seemed to be reaching for his briefcase, says Khrushchev. "I seized his arm to prevent him from grabbing a weapon in the briefcase." When searched, however, Beria proved to be unarmed. Six months later, after summary proceedings, he and about half a dozen subordinates were shot. Among the charges against Beria was the rape of more than 100 women and girls, one a seventh-grade...