Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refer to the problem of inadequate protection for our landing strips and encampments in Viet Nam. Our soldiers have been paying tribesmen $5 a month to protect them. This is outrageous. In this age of scientific advancement, we surely could provide sufficient protection for our men and our bases anywhere. Westmoreland could set up electric eyes at certain intervals and guard these positions with only a few soldiers, making an almost foolproof fence around the base or the airstrip...
...Laos, and under general international law." It was underwritten last year by a joint resolution of Congress, passed by a 502-2 vote (the holdouts: Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse and Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening) authorizing the President to take "whatever measures necessary" to protect the sovereignty of South Viet...
...Bradley's a real good player, but he's getting an awful lot of publicity," Williams said. "The reason I don't think he's the greatest player in the United States is that the referee lets him get away with a lot. The refs really protect him. He doesn't really need that...
...begun to use its preventive powers. If federal agents had used their arrest powers in Marion, against the club-swinging troopers, Jackson would never have been shot. Finally the President has the power (Sections 332 and 333, Title 10) to establish a special police force to protect Negroes and civil rights workers...
...hand on nylon ropes, they climbed only 420 ft. on the first day. The next day was almost as tough: 550 ft. Both nights they slept suspended in midair on ropes anchored to pitons, with sleeping bags pulled up to their shoulders and nylon tents over their heads to protect them from the bitter wind...