Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conciliatory, he said that he did not rule out the possibility that some anti-abortion amendment that he could accept might later be drafted. He even asked the bishops if they had any proposals. Their reply: It is not the church's business to draft legislation but to protect human life...
...homes in search of what they called "cheeky children." lames Kruger, South Africa's tough Minister of Justice, denied this. "The Zulus have been harassed and have banded together to defend themselves and their property, which they have every right to do," he declared. "People are entitled to protect themselves against physical intimidation." For their part, the Zulus appeared to be seizing the opportunity to avenge old grievances. In the melee, they raped several local women and tried to force scores of girls into their hostels...
Later in the week, other residents in Soweto formed their own vigilante groups to protect themselves. Police, at first delighted by the Zulu backlash, were belatedly ordered to move in and separate the black combatants. Police admitted killing 14 of the week's victims and wounding dozens of the others with small-size buckshot-a tactic ordered by Justice Minister Kruger to keep the death toll down...
...forefront of the fight to combat Communism [which is] infiltrating the country." Asked why the police did not use rubber bullets during the June rioting in Soweto in which 176 were killed, Kruger replied: "Rubber bullets give the impression the police have rubber guns. They cannot protect life and property with rubber guns, and I have no intention of asking them...
...wares. A. & F.'s Manhattan store on Madison Avenue was a showcase of such exotic items as $300 miniature antique cannons, $1,188 Yukon dog sleds, and portable stone furnaces for heating cabins on yachts. It even sold lightweight chain-mail suits to protect explorers against arrows from Indian bows in South America...