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...another firm. Anaconda Co. did just that-for understandable reasons-after New York's Crane Co. came calling last year. Anaconda is in the red, and Crane Chairman Thomas M. Evans is known for his ruthless sacking of money-losing managers. Last week Anaconda found a giant protector: it and Houston-based Tenneco Inc. announced plans for what would be one of the biggest mergers ever in terms of total revenues-if it can be brought off over Evans' opposition...
Damascus' imposition of the cease-fire on Lebanon was a personal triumph for Syrian President Hafez Assad. He can now legitimately pose as the protector of the Lebanese Moslems and claim to have prevented an Arab state from destroying itself in a civil war. Moreover, he has acquired some measure of authority over the 400,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon. By using the P.L.A. to stop the fighting, Assad avoided direct Syrian military intervention in Lebanon, which might have triggered an invasion by Israeli troops...
...feel that it is the duty of the Government, led by the President, not only to sustain the American people but to act, as guide and protector for as much of the world as our influence can be made to reach. This requires huge conglomerations of federal employees...
...watching, unable to become more than peripherally involved with the world of survival. Emily takes care of her, for the older woman is unable to forage for food, unable to adapt to the callousness of the struggle. From being herself a child needing protection. Emily has become a protector, assuming an adult's responsibility to take care of others. But only the narrator can provide a backdrop to Emily's growth, for she alone can see a continuum, the "hinterland which had formed" the girl. Somehow, miraculously, the narrator is able to see through the walls of her apartment...
...protector of the Moslem shrines in Mecca and Medina, Faisal had a certain claim to spiritual leadership within Islam. But in an era when kings were being overthrown in Egypt, Iraq and Libya, Faisal's ambitions for political leadership in the Arab world were sharply challenged, most notably by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, the secular prophet of a new kind of Arab nationalism. The two strong-minded leaders clashed directly only once before Nasser's death in 1970. After Yemen's Imam Badr was ousted in a Republican coup, Nasser sent in Egyptian forces to support the new regime...