Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee to go to hell." Sears for his part cracked back that Attorney Robb had messed things up by hiring the pressagents who turned the Goldfine appearance into a circus (TIME, July 14), hinted darkly that Robb had not really represented Goldfine at all but was hired to protect the interests of Sherman Adams...
...Soviet arms, spreading inflammatory lies, preaching assassination. The British might warn Khrushchev, as Anthony Eden in a moment of crisis did once before, that British national solvency depends on ability to buy Persian Gulf oil for sterling, and that the British are prepared to take all necessary steps to protect its source...
...were likely to remain verbal so long as British troops remain in Jordan, but in London there was increasing talk of a "villa at Lausanne" as a suitable reward for Hussein. For Jordan, a melancholy excuse for a nation, is unable to support its people without subsidy, unable to protect its government without outside help. If it continued to exist, it would only be because everyone, at the summit or elsewhere, decided that its eradication would be worse...
...Western proposal, in answer to Khrushchev's wild offer of a Big-Five summit meeting in Geneva, was carefully worked out by the President, Secretary of State Dulles and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan; 2) the deployment of U.S. forces to Lebanon to protect a small government against threats of subversion was being accepted in the Middle East as the most significant display of Western strength and determination since Korea; 3) U.S. policies over the last fortnight, far from alienating world opinion, had brought the Western nations closer together than they had been for years, and seriously...
...three years the French had refused to run a pipeline from their Edjele oilfield in the Sahara (estimated reserves: 70 million metric tons) over its natural route through Tunisia to the Mediterranean, unless French troops were allowed to stay in southern Tunisia to protect it. De Gaulle abandoned the conditions. He told Tunisian Ambassador Mohammed Masmoudi: "We are not at all opposed to Tunisia having its share of the Sahara's resources." The French and Tunisians signed an agreement to build the pipeline across Tunisia at a cost of $95 million, which will give jobs to 2,000 Tunisians...