Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finance Minister Morarji Desai angrily set out to get the facts about the Red road. Cross-questioning India's Army Chief of Staff. Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, he asked when he first knew about the road. In 1957, said the general, and he had offered proposals to safeguard the security of India, but they were turned down by the Defense Minister, lean, rancorous V. K. Krishna Menon. "Why?" asked Desai. "Because," replied Thimayya, "he said that the enemy was on the other side [i.e., Pakistan], not on this side...
Draper sees no landing problems except at the high (6,000 ft.) field at Kabul, Afghanistan (which is being constructed for the Afghans by the Russians). Hemmed in by high mountain ranges, Kabul has no instrument-landing facilities, is often socked in suddenly by bad weather. As an extra safeguard, an Air Force C-47 at Kabul will make constant, firsthand weather reports to Draper while he is en route from Karachi. If bad weather does hit, Draper will know about it in plenty of time to skip Kabul and head for New Delhi. Hopefully the party will try Kabul...
First, opponents of NSA claim that the Association is viewed by the public as a lobby group for a monolithic student opinion that does not really exist. But there is on many vital issues a majority consensus among American students that can be valuably asserted. As a safeguard against false unanimity, though, NSA has provided that should a college disagree with majority resolutions, it can register a written vote of dissent; Harvard can go on record as disagreeing with any actions of NSA it finds noxious...
...case from Michigan's Congressman Alvin Bentley. Wrote Henderson: "I would like to state categorically that our officers in the embassy in Ankara and the consulate in Izmir were deeply concerned about this case from the beginning and that they acted properly and with good judgment to safeguard the rights of the accused. In my opinion, [they] have lived up to the best traditions of the Foreign Service...
...growers launched their campaign without even consulting Dr. Ugai. Said one merchant: "Favored from ancient times, tea now stands the test of the atomic age as a safeguard against one of the most dreaded byproducts of that age." But one thing was missing: evidence that what works in laboratory mice will work equally well...