Word: protectiveness
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...assignment, as the sometimes floundering efforts of official Washington demonstrate. The activist consensus of the cold war, which made every foot of turf on earth a prize to be won or lost, has evaporated. At the same time the venerable formula that U.S. forces are to be used to protect vital interests and key allies seems less than adequate to guide the country in a violent world of fluctuating priorities. Will America's $260 billion-a-year military machine be sent into action to fight only aggressors like North Korea, Iran or Iraq, as the Pentagon's conventional strategy suggests...
...leaders to search for new definitions of the nation's interests abroad. Even the prudent George Bush, who ordered U.S. troops to Somalia in the first place, was rethinking the old guidelines just before he left office. He suggested that "military force might be the best way to protect an interest that qualifies as important but less than vital." Force is a key adjunct to diplomacy, he argued, and "real leadership requires a willingness to use military force." Richard Haas, the former White House aide who wrote that speech, explains, "It was an attempt to come up with a slightly...
Moore, a Democrat who took office in 1988 and is seeking testimony about tobacco's addictive properties and impact on health, believes the subpoena will protect Wigand from legal action by B&W for breaking his nondisclosure contract. But even more explosive than Wigand's deposition could be the documents that the subpoena requests him to produce. Those papers supposedly include evidence that B&W altered its research into the carcinogenic, toxic or addictive effects of tobacco, as well as a diary Wigand kept while working there. Wigand, says Moore, has "wanted to tell the truth...
...search process was unfair to the existing leaders of PBH. More importantly, it attempted to put too much control over Brooks House into the hands of those who, however well-meaning, have insufficient ties to local communities and experience in working with student-run programs. In order to protect the integrity of PBH's commitments within the communities served as well as to its staff and student leaders, PBH unanimously resolved to distance itself from the University by incorporating the staff component of Brooks House under Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc., instead of under the University...
...unified under Bosnian control. Refugees will return home. The potentially traumatic process of repatriating those refugees was not clearly spelled out this morning, though President Clinton did say that an independent commission will monitor the human rights of all Bosnians, and that an internationally trained civilian police force will protect them...