Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Court employees crippled the judicial system yesterday with their third strike of the anti-drug war, led by judges who want guns and bulletproof cars for protection from assassins hired by cocaine barons.
Also yesterday, all 42 of Medellin's federal judges announced they were resigning, according to the Colombian radio network RCN. They had begun an indefinite strike Thursday, demanding more protection from drug traffickers.
Even the Supreme Court, which never goes on strike, said the government had been remiss in not giving judges and their helpers more protection.
DESPITE incidents like these, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) persistently claims that a two-car escort service satisfies the needs of the Harvard community. And the University continues to claim that an escort service run between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. is all the protection its students need.
Greenhouse effect education week at Harvard will start off with a talk by State Representative Lawrence R. Alexander, an active sponsor of environmental protection legislation. Other lecturers will include Professor Michael B. McElroy, chair of the Deparment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and William C. Clark, an environmental policy expert...