Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lips of millions, many reviling him but others expressing sympathy and genuinely wondering how a novel could elicit such deadly passion. The dispute reminded Westerners once again of the zealous rage that Khomeini is capable of; it also raised questions about how free societies can best protect themselves and their citizens against so furious and mercurial a form of intimidation...
...felony charges, Leach heads down the road to check on another bust before returning to Houston to face the mountain of paperwork that accompanies an operation of this magnitude. Leach, Gavitt and the other agents gravitate to their jobs because of the sense of accomplishment they get from protecting America's vanishing wildlife. "I used to feel uncomfortable about making friends with people and busting them, but I'm not out to cause people trouble; I'm here to protect wildlife," says Leach. Gavitt notes that many people doing the most damage to wildlife use sophisticated scams, not easily investigated...
This week, to prevent such a tragedy, conservationists will unveil the most elaborate and costly plan in history to rescue a single species. Sponsored by the African Elephant Conservation Coordinating Group, a coalition of several international organizations, the plan calls for bolstering efforts to protect elephants against poachers, a study of ways to crack down on illegal trading of tusks, and a publicity campaign to alert people and governments to the relationship between the trade in ivory and the plight of the elephant. The AECCG hopes to raise at least $15 million in four years to finance its work...
Conservationists cannot hope to protect elephants throughout their African homelands. For that reason, the AECCG, which includes such major conservation groups as the World Wildlife Fund, TRAFFIC and Wildlife Conservation International, envisions a triage approach. The group plans to concentrate its resources on about 40 populations that have the best chance of being guarded from poachers. That strategy would focus on saving about 250,000 elephants and would reluctantly leave another 500,000 to their fate...
Reading excerpts of the document shows the value the modern Church places on the equal treatment of all peoples. By definition, the document says, governments should protect human rights; countries that practice "institutionaized racism" are therefore illegitimate...