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...partial supply line for the Viet Cong; although Sihanouk officially denies this, he unofficially promises that if he gets his way on the conference, he will then keep Cambodia from being so used. A formal tie with Red China, which he already calls "our No. 1 friend and protector," would aggravate but need not seriously affect the Vietnamese war. Besides, there is evidence that Red China does not really want a close embrace with Sihanouk, that it prefers the present situation in which Peking carries a minimum of responsibility for Cambodia while the little country causes a maximum amount...
Golden Boy. The mourning voices first of all were for the President of the United States, regardless of his name or identity. For in a sense far beyond daily foreign policy squabbles, he is to much of the world the protector of the weak, the benefactor of the poor...
...submit to a succession of men--first father, then husband, then son. Before the family code of which I am the author, women were legally classified with minors and the insane. They wasted all their intelligence and energy in fighting each other, and to get what? A man, a protector. And once they got him, they had to fight each other to keep...
Rapidly, fear of expropriation spread through the ruling elite. Despite government guarantees, the major Dominican newspaper feared seizure; it turned against the president. Military leaders sincerely began to consider themselves the only protector of constitutional liberties...
...declared at Belley, "even if we are its allies for the equilibrium of the world, we do not want it to direct us or even become our protector." On the other hand, he hinted that France would be delighted to become the protector of a "third world" consisting of Africa, Asia, Latin America "and all those countries that are developing their personalities...