Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been" in his safe. Some FBI officials suspect that Gray was pressured by the Nixon White House to approve the use of bag jobs. As one agent explained the rationale: "These Weathermen were bomb throwers. The pressure was on to do something about them. The agents were acting to protect the country." Field agents insisted that records of the approved bag jobs were kept in Washington. If so, they were apparently never brought to Kelley's attention...
...aimed at keeping potential subversives out of public service jobs. Universally known as the Radikalenerlass (radicals' decree), its tough guidelines have actually barred a mere 428 job applicants out of a total of 496,000. Even though other European democracies -notably France-have taken equally stringent actions to protect themselves from internal subversion, the decree has recently triggered mounting outrage both within and outside Germany...
...special events, services, and the arts are very comprehensive. The Boston Globe is strongest in its local and sports reporting, but on the national level its coverage is at best erratic, with the exception of two fine journalists--Curtis Wilkie and Martin Nolan. For national and international news, protect yourself by picking up a copy of The New York Times in the Square. (This is, by the way, one of the best features of the Square; between Out of Town News, Nini's Corner, and Reading International on Brattle St., you can get just about any newspaper or magazine...
...urban guerrilla attacks, one defendant named Prospero Gallinari suddenly stood up. Ignoring the judge's admonishments, Gallinari read from a statement held in his manacled hands: "Yesterday an armed nucleus of the Red Brigades executed the state hangman Francesco Coco and two mercenaries who were supposed to protect him." Police did not challenge Gallinari's claim. From composite sketches based on the descriptions of witnesses who had seen the five attackers flee, authorities had already zeroed in on one man, a 29-year-old Genovese named Giuliano Nara, a long-sought member of the Brigate Rosse...
...assassination, Argentine Interior Minister General Albano Harguindeguy denounced a "well-directed campaign from abroad aimed at undermining the prestige of the new authorities and hindering the process of national reorganization." Harguindeguy was referring to what he called "false" charges-mainly in the European press -that Argentina has failed to protect political refugees; many of his fellow officers suspect that the murders are the work of right-wing Peronist death squads trying to discredit the Videla government...