Word: protectively
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AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE. Established in 1906 by American Jews largely of German descent and initially opposed to Zionism (a position long since abandoned), it has 40,000 members and an annual operating budget of $9 million. Its general purpose is to protect the civil and religious rights of Jews, and reduce prejudice. It publishes the lively intellectual journal Commentary (circ. 60,000) and the American Jewish Year Book...
...official of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) said yesterday that Harvard's new rules on access to educational records protect students' rights more than HEW's proposed rules require...
...Built into this policy, of course, is the assumption that Cambodia is "ours" to "lose." Moreover, the president said last week. "The policy of this country is to help those nations with military hardware--not U.S. military personnel--where the government and the people of a country want to protect their country from foreign aggression." Two more fallacies: the war in Cambodia is a civil war, and the people of Cambodia have been mistaken for the person of Lon Nol. In fact, we (that is our government) are continuing to impose ourselves on a people who don't want...
...Soviet-made equipment; Santiago, meanwhile, is receiving more than $500 million in warplanes, tanks and ships purchased in the past 18 months from the U.S. and Europe. Fearing that it will be caught in the middle if war erupts, Bolivia has decided that it must modernize its weaponry to protect itself, even though the country can ill afford...
...Guilty pleas keep the judicial system alive, if not exactly well. They dispose of more than 90% of urban criminal cases. But they also normally end a defendant's right to a constitutional challenge of his arrest or the evidence gathered for use against him. To protect that right, New York and California have both provided that even though a prisoner pleads guilty, he may still mount a constitutional attack with an appeal in state courts. But may that attack continue into federal courts via a habeas corpus petition? In a heroin possession case, a four-man minority argued...