Word: protected
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Geographic isolation, in part, helped protect both these mavericks from the Kremlin's wrath. Other rebellious East bloc nations were less fortunate. In 1953 the Soviet army moved into East Germany to crush a widening worker-led insurrection in support of political freedom and economic improvements. Three years later, there were popular uprisings against pro-Moscow regimes in both Poland and Hungary. The Kremlin let the Polish army put down the rioting Poznan workers, who were demanding "bread and freedom." But the Soviets sent their own troops into Budapest in a brutal suppression that left at least...
...three months ago and its continued detention of Iranian Oil Minister Mohammad Javad Tondguyan as a prisoner of war. When the conference opened, they disrupted the proceedings by propping a 2-ft. by 3-ft. photo of Tondguyan in the chair reserved for Iran's chief delegate. To protect its Oil Minister, the Iraqi delegation packed 17 guns at the conference. Some Iraqi aides wore guns even inside the meeting room in defiance of the security regulations of their Indonesian hosts...
...hero, played by E.G. Marshall, was once the head of a great bank. He embezzled funds in a desperate move to protect his depositors, was caught out and spent five years in prison. For the past eight years he has paced an upper room in his bleak house, unspoken to by his wife Gunhild (Rosemary Murphy) as he broods over past wounds and dreams an illusory comeback...
...What are the prospects that OPEC will index the price of oil to protect it from Western inflation...
...Could the U.S. protect Saudi Arabia in a crisis in the Middle East...