Word: preventing
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Many Burmese who hate the regime also lament their inability to change it. "We are rubbish," says a student in Mandalay. "Our tradition and our religion prevent us from getting things done," says a Rangoon intellectual. The pacific teachings of Theravada Buddhism do not, for example, allow self- immolation of the sort practiced by protesting Vietnamese monks in the 1960s...
...even the opposition of the N.A.A.C.P. could prevent Connecticut's Gary Franks from becoming the first black Republican member of the House of Representatives since 1935. Franks, 37, a prosperous real estate investor and a Waterbury alderman, is a fiscal conservative who opposes racial quotas. The Yale graduate hails his win as a classic victory over "tax-and-spend" liberalism...
...Russian Federation is also maneuvering toward some kind of power-sharing agreement with its 16 autonomous republics. Yeltsin has urged localities to claim as much authority as they can cope with, delegating the rest to the Russian Federation. At the same time, Russian leaders want to prevent their federation from splintering into mini-republics. Khasbulatov speculates that it might be enough to let local authorities keep a share of taxes and revenues...
There is even a political problem with that hope. If an invasion force composed solely of American and European troops moves against Iraq, the attack would be seen as a Western assault on the Arab nation. To prevent a ground swell of resentment from sweeping across the Islamic world, some of the blood shed by Saddam's foes will have to be that of Muslims...
...role in protecting Palestinians in the occupied territories. In a report ordered by the council after 20 Arabs were killed by Israeli forces on Jerusalem's Temple Mount last month, Perez de Cuellar suggested the 164 nations that signed the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention convene to discuss ways to prevent human-rights violations in the territories, including the designation of a "protecting power" for the Palestinians...