Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. He had been prevented from supporting the Loyalists by the threat of opposing naval forces. The major naval construction program he initiated withered after the German invasion of June 1941, but in July 1945 Stalin ordered the building of a mighty fleet to protect and support Soviet interests...
...resultant navy has many strengths and a compensating pool of weaknesses. One of its strong points is that, in the event of hostilities, it would not have to protect any sea lines of communication because the U.S.S.R. is self-sufficient in a high proportion of strategic materials, and its people, as a senior Soviet general recently said to me, "can live off cabbages-and we grow good cabbages...
...Zaïre, guerrillas of the small Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave (F.L.E.C.) are fighting for independence. Unfortunately for the F.L.E.C.'s chances, the squabbling Cabindans are split into three factions; moreover, according to Western intelligence estimates, several battalions of Cubans have been deployed in Cabinda to protect the offshore oil wells that currently provide most of Angola's revenues. Farther south, surviving units of the F.N.L.A. also harass government forces in occasional skirmishes, even though Holden Roberto, 55, now stays mainly in Zaïre. President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre provided much of the F.N.L.A...
...heart of the Greco-Turkish diplomatic impasse is Cyprus. After a 1974 coup inspired by Athens' ruling junta against the late President Archbishop Makarios, Turkey?using U.S.-supplied arms?invaded the island to protect the minority of 120,000 Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish forces, however, then proceeded to partition Cyprus. They occupied 40% of the island, centered on the industrialized north, where virtually all Turkish Cypriots now live. Nearly 200,000 Greek Cypriots were forced to flee, joining their 320,000 ethnic brethren in the south. Blaming the U.S. for supporting the hated junta, which collapsed after the Cyprus coup...
Legras might have fared even worse in the U.S. Almost all U.S. law schools teach the common law doctrine that "spring guns," booby-trapped weapons that fire at an intruder, are excessively violent when used to protect empty premises. In a 1971 Iowa case, Katko vs. Briney, the State Supreme Court upheld an award of $30,000 in damages to a man who was injured by a spring gun when he broke into the upstairs bedroom of an abandoned farmhouse. In a 1974 case, San Anselmo, Calif, Homeowner Don Luis Ceballos was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon when...