Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...message, loud and clear. As evidence, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano last week revealed that the Administration intends to introduce only a modest national health plan this year. Carter had campaigned on a pledge to fight for a comprehensive medical insurance program, but his proposal would simply improve existing coverage, protect against catastrophic medical bills and cost $10 billion to $15 billion a year after it is fully implemented. It would not start until 1983, and then only if the Administration's hospital cost-containment bill was passed. "A serious disappointment," said Senator Ted Kennedy, the champion of comprehensive insurance...
...Middle East crises [March 12] would be for President Carter to issue a White Paper declaring to the whole world, foe and friend alike, that oil is indispensable to the life of the American people, and that the U.S. will use all of its might and resources to protect the supply of oil, wherever...
Sykes' assassination, coming just a month after U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs was kidnaped and murdered by Muslim extremists, underscored the grim reality that diplomats have become prime targets for terrorists. By and large, security measures to protect the ambassadors are often surprisingly lax. Straub's parents said their son had told them of repeated bomb threats against the ambassadorial residence. Yet the ambassador had no bodyguard, the limousine was not equipped with bulletproof windows, and his residence was unguarded. Sykes' apparent disregard for his own safety seemed all the more astonishing since he had recommended...
...most ERA states, rape laws have been extended to protect both men and women against sexual assault...
...Operating under a secret pact with Britain and France, Israeli armies overrun the Sinai Peninsula. Franco-British forces move in to "protect" the Suez Canal. Under U.S. and Soviet pressure, Britain and France soon withdraw, and Israel pulls out nearly a year later. A U.N. force is installed to guard the Egyptian-Israeli border...