Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investigation that might well have led them to the White House officials who ran the Watergate coverup. But Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray was reluctant to push the probe, especially after the CIA, at the instigation of White House aides, urged him to restrict the inquiry, ostensibly to protect U.S. intelligence activities in Mexico. At Bates' suggestion, Gray asked the CIA to put the requests in writing, and the CIA officials backed off. Instead of rewarding Bates and his colleagues for being right, Gray banished one agent to St. Louis and retired another. Avoiding a similar fate, Bates...
...that '''about half' of Boston's 1000 black teachers crossed picket lines." What I actually stated was that the radio reported that one half of the 225 members of the Black Educator's Alliance, not all Boston teachers, voted Monday night at Freedom House to go to school to protect endangered black schoolchildren, particularly in racist areas; they additionally stated that despite this action they were in full solidarity with the aims of the strike...
There are other important reasons for the U.S. to maintain its power in Asia. It has sea-lanes to protect and a western frontier to guard. Above all, there are the non-Communist countries of East and Southeast Asia that have been allies of the U.S. in the past and that the U.S. can now, in the post-Viet Nam atmosphere, assist in new ways. A lower military profile will enable the U.S. to concentrate on economic and technological aid to these nations...
...they were also aimed at Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Along with Thailand, these sometime rival states now constitute the eight-year-old Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Although the organization is no more than a loose grouping, its leaders are all strong, capable rulers determined to protect their own country's independence...
...lines, is an aggressive TV newsman. In the first hour he 1) rescued a child trapped on a cliff, 2) salvaged a broken-down silent-screen star, 3) rehabilitated a suicidal paraplegic ex-rodeo performer, 4) went to jail in defense of the newsman's right to protect his sources and 5) persuaded one of them to come forward and give evidence at a murder trial while 6) rescuing her from incipient alcoholism. As no more than a few seconds of screen time are devoted to the sermonettes which accomplish these miracles, one must believe that the people whose...