Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Commission recognizes the need for modernity in the Square, but hopes to protect the charm of the area, Sullivan said...
...counter, how it will strengthen stability in Europe, and whether U.S. lives will have to be risked to deal with "border, ethnic, nationalist and religious disputes" in Central Europe. "I'm not convinced we should be part of an alliance that says the U.S. should go to war to protect a couple little countries most Americans haven't heard of," says Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy...
Pentagon officials, it seems, could use some remedial mathematics instruction. The Pentagon's timetable for building a national missile shield to protect Americans against a handful of incoming enemy missiles keeps slipping. In each of the past three years, Defense officials have said they were six years away from operating a scaled-down, ground-based "Star Wars" system that could cost up to $10 billion...
...that so few people know what the ACLU does: the name makes it into dockets far more often than into the media. What does surprise--and concern--me is the number of people claiming to have rights relative to the number who understand what they are and how to protect them. It is not a one-to-one ratio...
DIED. BETTY SHABAZZ, 61, Malcolm X's steadfast widow; of third-degree burns suffered in a fire allegedly set by her grandson; in New York City. In 1965, as her husband was shot repeatedly, Shabazz, pregnant with twins, flung herself over her daughters. Her first impulse, to protect the children, never wavered. A devout Muslim, she earned a doctorate in education administration, and embodied her husband's message of dignity for African Americans...