Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growing hordes of American troops who are slowly taking over Haiti are carrying thousands of pounds of weaponry, ammunition and supplies. They are also carrying something else. Each and every one of them carries a bright red bullseye on his back. And just as the assorted gear designed to protect them has been provided by their government, so has that mark, a mark which could cost them their lives...
...rationale for pulling the plug, the signatories of the memo postulated, was nothing less than "to protect the integrity of the Championship Season." Such logic had last been employed during the Vietnam War. In order to save the village that is baseball, the owners as much as said, they had to get out the napalm. Donald Fehr, head of the Players Association, expressed no surprise. Referring, perhaps unwittingly, to the intractability of both sides in the week before the cancellation, Fehr said, "There might as well have been wooden dolls at the bargaining table...
...officers actually comes from some surprising sources. The most crushing battles, they argue, often occur not on the streets but in the rundown precinct houses, and the courtrooms, and the $ privacy of their own homes. Too often, police complain, the commanders and commissioners who cops imagined would guide and protect them seem to ignore or betray them instead. "Frequently, officers feel that somewhere on the line between lieutenant and captain, these people change," says Scott Allen, clinical psychologist for the 3,200-member Metro-Dade police department in Florida. "The command loses touch with the soldiers...
...Upholding the reliability" of U.S. commitments, to use the President's words, is an especially disingenuous argument. No one can seriously doubt even Clinton's resolve to protect the nation's vital interests wherever they are truly at stake. In Haiti the credibility gap the President seeks to close is largely the result of his own dithering. Indeed, more than anything else, the current crisis can be traced to the President's capitulation to an unarmed rent-a-mob protesting the arrival of a U.S. warship last October. When the Harlan County turned away from Port-au-Prince, the junta...
JOHNSON -- Dominican Republic: "Only an immediate landing of American forces could safeguard and protect the lives of thousands of Americans...