Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee member who asked to remain unidentified, said the most effective way to educate students about divestiture "is to get them mad at the University. Students come here thinking Harvard is the great protector of society. They have to be shown that this is not the case," he said...
Staunchly antiCommunist, the Shah dreamed of making Iran a military power, the protector of the Persian Gulf. Convinced that he was a reliable and unassailable ally, Washington-most notably the Nixon Administration-encouraged him to build up his arsenal. He did-to the tune of $36 billion. By 1978, Iran had one of the world's most sophisticated collections of advanced weaponry, including F-14 jet fighters and a variety of guided-missile systems. Meanwhile 63,000 of Iran's 66,000 villages had neither piped water nor electricity. The capital of Tehran (pop. 5 million) lacked...
...what makes for good friendship than what makes for good government, of where kindliness becomes interference, assistance domination: these are the old familiar battle lines. For their part, the allies may be wondering if the U.S. understood friendship as a true partnership or merely as a kind of protectorate, the protector now petulant and moody after several open rebuffs. Friendship applied to countries is as slippery as that applied to individuals, and must be safeguarded in similar ways. Each side has to realize when it has diverged too far-when, for the sake of the cheap thrill of discomfiting...
...already claimed more than 700 victims this year. Thousands of others thronged to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, where Romero's body lay in state, and joined a silent procession behind the cortege as it was taken to the Metropolitan Cathedral. "He was our father and protector," explained one grief-stricken woman carrying a small bouquet of yellow flowers. Said a middle-aged salesman: "The people will never forget this vile...
...Ezera was wrong. He now distrusts a system he once believed in--the system of American law enforcement. He now believes the only thing that could have kept him out of court would have been a different skin color. When Blacks attend Harvard, the school becomes a protector and the student becomes wrapped in a Harvard mystique--an air of arrogant complacency. Harvard offers a different view of the world, but it cannot change what the world outside actually looks like. Blacks may graduate and leave for the Law School, Business School or the corporate outside world, with their attire...