Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agency believes that about 90% of the agents listed in Dirty Work have been publicly named before or are known to U.S. adversaries. But the other 10% were secret. "They'll be in danger," says one CIA official, who believes that the book may damage the agency's ability to function effectively overseas: "The friendly liaison services are nervous, the agents are falling off, and we're powerless to stop Agee." Dirty work, all around...
...dictatorial regime. Although the Sandinistas slipped over into their wilderness hiding places, they had won something of a moral victory. They had shown that most of Nicaragua's 2.6 million people are bitterly anti-Somoza. In town after town, armed only with pistols and hunting rifles, ordinary people ignored danger and risked reprisal to support the guerrillas. In León, an elderly doctor, patching up the wounded, paused long enough to offer this defiant assessment: "Our wounds will never heal, not as long as that murderer of his people remains...
...First and Sixth amendments, the Times has refused in effect to acknowledge the seriousness of the problem. At the same time, the Times has arrogated to the press judicial immunity it would rightly deny any other institution. One can only hope that the Times will realize the danger of maintaining its present position, particularly in light of the altered facts of the case. The Times should accept Judge Trautwein's compromise or propose a better one. A failure to do so will eventually result in an imperfect judicial decision that does violence to one or both of the equally precious...
...more stable and balanced policy towards the Soviet Union" which is both more "realistic and effective." He also noted the "polarization of American opinion" on the Soviet Union and disagreed with the positions of George Kennan and "extremists" like Walt Rostow and others on the Committee on the Present Danger...
...litany of campaign promises, culled from the posters that encircled the room, but the roaring of the crowd stayed about the same. Not until he mentioned Dukakis was there a shift in emotion, of depth of feeling; then the boos and catcalls reached Fenway-bleacher intensity, genuine danger level. Ed King, hardly a man to let concrete issues stand in the way of a genuine outpouring of emotion, let the boos run their course, shouted a few more platitudes about the people's voice being heard, and marched off triumphant to another chorus of the B.C. fight song...