Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mistake for the U.S. to basically change its mission because of this," President Clinton said last week. The missions over Iraq are being flown without interruption. But if American forces are to stay in the gulf, the U.S. will have to defend them better. Fences and concrete barriers protect the Khobar compound, and after the attack in Riyadh, regular patrols were stepped up and lookouts were posted on rooftops. But no American official believed terrorists could strike with an explosion 10 times the size of the one in Riyadh. As General J.H. Binford Peay, commander of U.S. forces...
...died at Khobar were there to protect Saudi Arabia from an external threat, not an internal one, yet that is what they fell victim to. On Thursday the bodies were flown back to the U.S. That same day, pilots from the 58th Fighter Squadron who lived in Building 131 returned home, having completed their normal 90-day tour of duty. "Their 90 days was up," said Major James Stratford. "They left. But some of them went home in coffins...
Malone, rumored to be a possible candidate to succeed Gov. William F. Weld '66, said Weld's proposals for welfare reform do not go far enough to protect the needy...
...hope that all summer school students will take this as a warning: report suspicious persons to the police and take care to protect yourself and your belongings," said Christopher S. Queen, dean of students for Harvard Summer School...
...good guys are trying to protect a top-secret computer disc from the bad guys...