Word: guardedness
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The sign outside the dingy, heavily guarded building in southwestern Moscow proclaimed: PEOPLE'S COURT. But what went on inside it last week was a caricature of justice. After four days of carefully rigged proceedings, a panel of three judges handed down the expected verdict: Yuri Orlov, a leading...
The initial reaction from many business leaders was that the economic stimulus to be expected from the proposed cut was not worth the extra deficit that it would add to the budget. Asked Irving Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont de Nemours & Co.: "Why have it at all if the reductions...
Soviet-built T-62 tanks of the Afghan army guarded the main streets and principal government buildings of Kabul last week, but on many of them the turrets were draped with garlands and the gun tubes incongruously sprouted flowers.
Administration officials, sitting behind the guarded and locked doors of University and Massachusetts Halls, moved to continued security precautions as memories of past student demonstrations at Harvard, and recent building occupations at Northeast colleges, added to the tension.
Uniformed police stood both inside and outside the locked doors of University and Massachusetts Halls. The mood in University Hall was quiet as three policemen guarded the southeast door, the building's only unlocked entrance, and barred all access to the building.