Word: protectors
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...vaunted superiority in soldiers and tanks, might be tempted to start and could probably win. According to another article of the dark faith, a denuclearized Western Europe would be "Finlandized": France, Italy and Belgium, but above all the Federal Republic of Germany, would be sucked away from their traditional protector on the far side of the Atlantic and into the Soviet orbit. These countries would end up, like Finland, being allowed to manage their internal affairs as they saw fit but obliged to calibrate their foreign policies to the wishes of Moscow...
...United States portrays itself as the protector of Latin American interests from Soviet or Marxist imperialist aggression. But the Soviet Union has its own protective role in the hemisphere, guarding Socialist states from imperialist aggression from the United States. Latin America may wonder what will happen to the principle of national sovereignty in the face of newly allied superpowers...
...Vermont. Quartermain, whose name evokes the dauntless hero of King Solomon's Mines, is not just well off. He is a member of the most powerful banking family in the U.S. For lagniappe, he bears a striking resemblance to Gary Cooper. The boy's only protector is a supermarksman out of Ghostbusters. Miquel is the sort of fellow who can shoot out the eye of a fly at 100 paces and vanish at will into a wood or a city, beyond the reach of ordinary humans...
...charlatan," says Helms, 66. No, he's a true believer. As patron saint of the not-so-New Right, he is protector of the unborn, champion of prayer in the classroom and pure hell on Communists. "A guy of guts and fire," Republican Senator Alan Simpson calls him. But conservatives too know how prickly he can be. Ask Ronald Reagan. Negotiating arms deals with the Kremlin is one thing; getting them past Helms is something else. Helms is not just committed to causes, he is consumed by them. Consider his fight to ban abortion. "Sure I'm obsessed with...
...even as the "Protector of the Land of Snows" sustains all the secret exoticism of that otherworldly kingdom reimagined in the West as Shangri-La, he remains very much a leader in the real world. Since the age of 15, he has been forced to deal with his people's needs against the competing interests of Beijing, Washington and New Delhi. That always inflammable situation reached a kind of climax last fall, when Tibetans rioted in Lhasa, their Chinese rulers killed as many as 32 people, the Dalai Lama held his first major press conference in Dharmsala...