Word: protectively
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Peretz has taken the opportunity to express his position in editorials, arguing against Israel's returning to its pre-1967 war boundaries and, according to Newsweek, suggesting invasion as an option to protect U.S. oil interests in the Middle East...
...last week. "But he will have to be considered on many key decisions from now on." In the near future those decisions will most likely be moderate, and at week's end Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo promised that henceforth "the government governs, the workers work, the armed forces protect, the institutions operate - and the revolution advances...
...mull over was an unexpectedly candid warning from Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Madrid. In a televised sermon delivered during the accession ceremonies, Cardinal Tarancón announced the church's intention to speak out "and shout if necessary" to protect human rights and liberties in Spain. The church would demand, he added, that Juan Carlos' government "promote the exercise of adequate freedom for all and the necessary common participation in all the problems and decisions of government...
...Other settlers cling to the Heights for more down-to-earth reasons. Explains Zipporah Harel, whose husband was one of the first six farmers to occupy the area: "We are not here because of a love of this land or because it was once Jewish. We are here to protect our country...
While not in any way retreating from the church's total condemnation of abortion, the bishops have recognized political reality and now call upon government to protect "the unborn child to the maximum degree possible." The "maximum-degree-possible" approach may fall short of the ideal, but to the bishops it has the virtue of being attainable...