Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan in 1980 essentially ran on a platform calling for the removal of the federal government from local matters. Followers hailed his philosophy as the new federalism. Reagan quickly became the focal point for a conservative populism which set out to protect the autonomy of the small town from the encroachment of the federal government...
...contracts are more inviolable than a reporter's pledge of confidentiality. Some journalists have even been willing to go to jail to protect that principle. But are there occasions when public interest demands that a news organization disclose the name of a confidential source...
...diplomatic relations with Iran since 1980, expressed support for France's firm stance. The Reagan Administration was engaged in its own war of words with Tehran. Interior Minister Mohtashami vowed retaliation if the U.S. proceeded this week with its plans to reflag Kuwaiti tankers and use American warships to protect the vessels in the Persian Gulf. Said Mohtashami: "Islamic Revolutionary Guards will turn the Persian Gulf into a graveyard for the Americans." According to some reports, Iran has mobilized seaborne suicide squads, who plan to ram U.S. ships with vessels that have been turned into floating bombs...
American analysts from Kennan onward have stressed their own view of the connection: the Kremlin's totalitarian domestic system, they argue, is a primary cause of its expansionist foreign policy. In order to consolidate and protect its power at home, the ruling elite finds it useful to create a hostile international environment. Richard Pipes, a history professor at Harvard University and hard-line Soviet expert who served in the Reagan Administration, is a noted proponent of this view. Says he: "Aggressiveness is embedded in a system where there is a dictatorial party that can justify its power only by pretending...
...Soviets claim to be. Gorbachev has called for reducing conventional arms to a level of "reasonable sufficiency." Said he: "In the European building, every apartment is entitled to protect itself against burglars, but only in such a way as not to demolish the next-door apartment." His top propagandist, Alexander Yakovlev, is even more forceful about cutting conventional forces. "We are prepared for the most radical steps along these lines," he told New Perspectives Quarterly, a California-based political journal. Encouraging words -- but in more than 13 years of negotiations with the West over mutual troop reductions, the Soviets have...