Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech that particularly impressed Nixon, Burger said two years ago that "governments exist chiefly to foster the rights and interests of their citizens, to protect their homes and property, their persons and their lives. If a government fails in this basic duty, it is not redeemed by providing even the most perfect system for the protection of the rights of defendants in the criminal courts. It is a truism of political philosophy rooted in history that nations and societies often perish from an excess of their own basic principle...
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). World light-heavyweight champion ship, with Bob Foster v. Andy Kendall, live from Springfield, Mass...
Died. Mrs. John Foster Dulles, 77, widow of the late Secretary of State, whose devotion to her husband's career and acceptance of public life ("I never know whom my husband will bring to breakfast, lunch or dinner, but it's sure to be someone interesting") exemplified the best characteristics of a Washington wife; in Washington...
...Kennedy-Wiesner-Chayes report brought an immediate reply from John Foster Jr., the Pentagon's Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Another response came in the form of a 60-page monograph published by a subcommittee of the conservative American Security Council. The A.S.C. subcommittee included not one but two Nobel laureates, Chemist Willard Libby and Physicist Eugene Wigner, an assortment of prominent academics, retired generals and admirals, and Edward Teller, one of the world's most eminent weapons physicists...
Crucial Issue. Foster accused the Kennedy report of inconsistencies, overstatements, understatements and contradictions (it did, in fact, misspell Wiesner's name twice), claiming that it presents "incompetent, dangerous and inadequate alternatives" to Safeguard. One of the points often made by Safeguard's opponents is that the system would require so quick a decision to be activated in time of national danger that the President might be excluded from the process. Bill Moyers raised the fear of a President's "surrendering his decision-making authority to the computers and the junior military officers who stand over them." Foster...