Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strong, are more unified and better armed than ever and range freely across the countryside. An important reason for their new mobility: U.S.-supplied Stinger antiaircraft missiles that are being used with increasing success to deprive Soviet ground forces of the air support they long used to protect troops and supply lines...
...often happens in a televised age, the image Gorbachev projected was divorced from the reality of what he actually said: that the Berlin Wall was built by East Germany to protect itself from outside interference; that Moscow restricts emigration in order to thwart Western attempts to create a brain drain; that Soviet troops are in Afghanistan because of repeated requests from that country for protection from foreign subversion; that the U.S.S.R. is pursuing its own Star Wars research...
...that would heal the wounds inflicted by 28 years of corruption and brutality ; under the Duvalier dynasty. Last week they awoke to the realization that the three-member provisional government, seated to guide Haiti through its transition to democracy, had evidently sold out the people's dreams to protect the army's interests. As talk ranged from new elections and foreign intervention to civil disobedience and armed insurrection, Haiti seemed balanced on the brink of anarchy. "From now on, it will be a constant struggle until we get our way," warned the Rev. Alain Rocourt, an election official and proponent...
...make very bold moves to protect Harvard's assets," Cabot added...
State senators elected not to pull the 15-year-old legislation, which aims to protect homosexuals from discrimination, from committee by a vote...