Word: protectorate
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...officials say they dispatched 4,700 extra security forces there last week after foiling a plot that included plans to set off car bombs next to the Grand Mosque. Such attacks aim to undermine the authority of the Saudi royal family, whose legitimacy derives from its role as the protector of Islam's holiest shrines. "The government sees this as a direct threat to the regime and to stability, and they are confronting it as such," says Gary Grappo, U.S. charge d'affaires in Riyadh...
...toilet paper. She thought it would be good business experience and steady, safe. "They told me I'd never probably see the frontline area," she says. It was at Fort Bliss that Lynch found her soul mates: her boyfriend Ruben Contreras and her roommate Lori Piestewa, best friend and protector. Lori was a Hopi Indian, the single mother of two. "We were completely opposite people--two different worlds it seemed like we came from," Lynch says. "But we clicked. She was like my sister, the big sister that I never...
...perpetrators [Sept. 8]. It created a big dent in the American plans for Iraq. It drove a wedge between America and the Shi'ite majority and scared off Iraqis who had been willing to collaborate with the U.S. It also proved that the Shi'ites still have no protector in Iraq. The best response for the U.S. is to shrink the goals of its mission. The old regime has been eliminated. Leave Iraq to the Iraqis; empower them to make their own decisions. Omar Minyawi Latham...
...should be jailed for breaking the law by disregarding the court order to remove the monument. The U.S. was built upon the premise of separation of church and state in order to preserve freedom of religion. It is ludicrous that someone like Moore, who is assigned to be a protector of the Constitution, does not uphold it. If he does not comply with it, why should anyone else? Moore has the right to live in this country, whatever his personal beliefs, but he does not have the right to undermine the government from within. ROBERTA SEIDMAN Stony Brook...
...critics argued that Washington's hard line had driven the North to pursue enrichment. South Korea's President at the time, Kim Dae Jung, who had pursued a "sunshine" policy toward North Korea, urged caution and more direct talks between the North and the U.S. Pyongyang's longtime protector, China, refused to support U.N. sanctions against the North despite its concerns about a nuclear-arms race on the peninsula...