Word: protection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointed him director of the seminar-a program they masterminded together but kissinger ran alone. Elliot wanted Kissinger to be the internationalist in Washington that he had always hoped to be and would probably have approved of Kissinger's decision to approach the FBI as the proper way to protect Harvard from potential communist encroachment. David Landau '72 writes in Kissinger: The Uses of Power, that even measured against the standard of the early McCarthy era, Elliot "was a violent Cold Warrior, one who would not tolerate the slightest deviation from the path of unrelenting struggle against the Stalinist Terror...
...police want to disarm us on the one hand, and they say they can't protect us on the other," he added...
...Sahara between Morocco and Algeria has caused the Carter Administration an inordinate amount of worry. As in such similarly intricate problems of the recent past that involved Zaire, Angola and the Ethiopian-Somali fighting in the Horn of Africa, the Administration has been sharply divided over how to protect its improving relations with the Third World while at the same time countering rising Soviet influence...
...period of rapid inflation, well-organized workers and those with scarce skills can protect themselves better, but even they eventually fall behind rising costs, and their living standards decline. Like Oliver Twist, American workers are expected to begin asking, "Please, sir. I want some more." The minimum wage is already due to rise next Jan. 1 from $2.90 an hour to $3.10. Nonunion workers are likely to start demanding greater pay hikes to catch up with both union salaries and inflation...
...impoundment of 60 United States foreign service officers by followers of Ayatollah Khomeini is a clear violation of the territorial sanctity of foreign missions, a fundamental international understanding. There is no question that all diplomatic efforts should be made to protect American lives with peaceful means. But if all diplomatic efforts fail and if American lives are in immediate danger, the Carter Administration should not rule out the use of a tactical force specifically ordered to save these lives. Although a state is obliged to respect the territorial rights of another, it has a greater duty to defend the lives...