Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last fall one of his friends yielded to five days of brutal KGB interrogation; after giving up a copy of the manuscript, she hanged herself (TIME, Sept. 17). Once Gulag was in the hands of the security police, Solzhenitsyn could no longer protect his informants, most of whom are named in the book. In the preface, he explains his decision to publish: "For years I have with reluctant heart withheld from publication this already completed book. My obligation to those who are still alive outweighed my obligation to those who are dead. But now that State Security has seized...
Lorenz is a fine observer of animals, Fromm concedes, who unfortunately "decided to venture out into a field in which he had little experience or competence, that of human behavior." Men and animals do fight instinctively to protect their vital interests -Fromm calls this "benign" aggression-but "only man seems to take pleasure in destroying life without any reason or purpose other than that of destroying." It is this "malignant" aggression that Lorenz has failed to identify and that now threatens man's very survival...
...improvements on Nixon's homes at Key Biscayne, Fla., and San Clemente, Calif. Last week the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency that monitors spending, charged that some of the $1.4 million spent at the two residences increased the value of the property but did little to protect the President. GAO officials maintain that Nixon should personally have borne at least part of the nearly $24,000 for landscape maintenance, $19,300 for building a private railroad crossing and cabana, $8,400 for property surveys, $10,600 for driveway paving and $3,800 for a new sewer line...
...association pointed out last week that the charge that Agnew did not deny was a felony involving "moral turpitude." Agnew should be disbarred, argued Alfred L. Scanlan, an association lawyer, "out of respect for the courts, out of respect for the legal profession, out of need to protect the public and for the administration of justice...
...addition, the cost of providing Secret Service protection for Agnew-a dozen agents accompanied him to Annapolis, and they keep watch in a parked car outside his house-is estimated at $80,000 so far. Staats told Moss: "We know of no specific provision of law authorizing the Secret Service to so protect a Vice President after he leaves office." President Nixon had ordered the Secret Service coverage for Agnew...