Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high crime rate in the U.S. today is the lack of law enforcement and the laxity and slow process of the courts in punishing offenders. The gun run now in progress is certainly not being carried out by potential criminals but rather by citizens who wish to protect themselves and their families, since they can no longer depend on the authorities to do this job. Before we do something foolish in a time when we are guided by our emotions rather than our reason, we may do well to recall the words of Benjamin Franklin: "They that can give...
...expectation that he would live up to his promises to bring about sweeping changes in France's archaic institutions. Stricken by inflationary wage settlements, France's economy has been seriously weakened; and De Gaulle has been forced to resort to drastic measures to protect its ailing industries (see BUSINESS). The country has recently lost $1 billion in foreign exchange. Unemployment is rising, and some people in Paris are already saying "Ça va recommencer en octobre"-"The whole thing will begin again in October." They mean the barricades, the street fighting, the strikes-and perhaps even worse...
Such a formula will still probably be required. The court's decision does not prevent Congress from legislating a copyright fee to protect the broadcasters and producing firms, and some CATV leaders publicly concede that this would be fair. Says Irving B. Kahn, president of TelePrompTer Corp., a cable franchise holder in New York City and Los Angeles: "We're not looking to be freeloaders. We still have an obligation to knock out a sensible and fair solution to the copyright problem." But the Supreme Court has strengthened the CATV bargaining position when negotiations resume. The cable owners...
Mosaic Refuge. The concept of sanctuary dates back to Mosaic law, which held that fugitives from the laws of man could take refuge at the altar of God, who, as the ultimate source of justice, would protect them if they were innocent. Christianity broadened the idea to include protection of the guilty. The Justinian Code of the Byzantine Empire, for example, denied church sanctuary primarily to criminals convicted of high treason or sacrilege. In medieval Europe, churches were allowed to protect convicted criminals-like Esmeralda, the condemned witch and murderess of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
Churchmen do not pretend that there is. "We are not trying to protect these boys," says the Rev. Harold R. Fray Jr., a United Church of Christ pastor who heads Massachusetts' Committee of Religious Concern for Peace. "We are not harboring them against the law. What we are doing is setting up a platform where their ethical and moral convictions can be made public." Adds the Rev. A. Finley Schaef, a hip-talking Methodist pastor in Greenwich Village: "This is a conscience thing, and that is what the church is concerned about, the conscience...