Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years of Government service, it has been his lot to contend secretly with the real enemies of the U.S., knowing that at any time he might be destroyed by suspicions and accusations that he could not fully answer, ones perhaps made by the very people he sought to protect...
...option of using force if and when its survival, or that of its essential allies, is at stake. "Any individual, or country, carries in the back of his mind the idea that if his life or livelihood is threatened, he will use all the means at his disposal to protect himself," observed Harvard Professor of Government Nadav Safran. Kissinger's remarks only repeated what he had said before on a "background" basis. They also were consistent with his earlier statements about the doomsday prospect facing the industrialized democracies of the West because of "economic strangulation"-that is, national bankruptcies...
...past three months, Brazilian Indians have killed twelve people in this and other assaults against representatives of FUNAI, an agency that was set up to protect the country's vanishing tribes. The attacks mark a desperate new stage in a struggle that began more than 300 years ago, when the Indians first resisted white men who were looking for gold, rubber and slaves in Brazil's vast interior. Just since the turn of this century, more than 96 tribes have disappeared in the face of white expansion; the country's Indian population, which may once have been...
...first. He also writes two regular columns for the Village Voice--a witty, acerbic one on the press and a general political one called Surplus Value. Surplus Value gets more conspiracy-oriented every week; this week it speculates about a possible CIA-led coup in Venezuela, designed to protect Rockefeller oil holdings there against nationalization, and about a big-business coal pipeline that will pollute the West and put Appalachian miners out of work...
...Buyers had additional reason to be hesitant. Several leading banks announced that they would not sell gold because of the costs and risks to unsophisticated investors. The National Association of Securities Dealers told the members to exercise "great caution" in gold dealings, warning that no federal mechanism exists to protect investors...