Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Midnight Climax. The women, apparently moonlighting prostitutes, were paid $100 for each assignment by the CIA. The operation, conducted by CIA alchemists from 1954 until 1963, was part of a quarter-century hunt for a psychogenic philosophers' stone. The purpose was to discover the secret of brainwashing, to protect U.S. agents and gain control over enemy spies...
...effectively blocked Turkish rights and prevented outsiders from seeking reasonable settlements. His arrogance of 1963 was replaced by the sorrow of 1974, and his new credo was, as he told TIME'S Dean Brelis at the time, "to live with the reality of what is and to protect that which we hold...
Such moves seem to indicate that Marcos has, as one diplomat told TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, "come to a pragmatic recognition of a new American mood on human rights." Even if one of the President's primary aims is to protect his $100 million in annual U.S. aid, he has raised general expectations that the Philippines is on the verge of a more liberal era. Says one church official: "International pressures have been building up, and Marcos has been forced...
...swam the half-mile to shore, pushing rubber dinghies laden with supplies. Tall, muscular and bronzed, they looked like beachcombers, except for wrist, ankle and head bands plaited from the leaves of ti plants, which are supposed to bring good luck. They also marked the wearers as members of Protect Kahoolawe Ghana (Hawaiian for "family"), the most militant of the native islanders' protest groups...
...Blumenthal's policy drew fire from Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns. Testifying before the House Banking Committee, Burns contended that the U.S. has a responsibility "to protect the integrity of our currency"-an apparent call for intervention in money markets to keep the dollar's value stable. Burns raised what most economists agree is the most serious danger of permitting the dollar to float downward: a cheapened dollar boosts the price of imports and fuels domestic inflation. Some economists also fear that a weakening of the dollar-the currency used by many nations for oil purchases-will...