Word: safe
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Foreign minister Orlando Letelier fled the Pinochet regime and began to criticize the general from America, where he imagined himself safe from attack. When Letelier and an assistant. Ronni Moffit, were blown up, the U.S. discovered that three senior Chilean intelligence officers were probably connected to the killings. Despite repeated requests, the men (who have been indicted by American courts) haven't been extradited. President Carter imposed mild trade sanctions on Chile for not returning the suspected murderers: Reagan ended even that minor form of protest...
Obviously staying calm is an utter necessity--but that doesn't mean blinding ourselves to the facts. To suppose that strict sanctions against the Soviet Union (not a militaristic response at all) would assure that the world would be a less safe place to be is asinine. Just as the schoolyard bully will do as no one puts his foot down and stands up to him, so will the Soviet Union do as it please until we do something...
...Play It Safe...
...David had a bad start with sloganeering," David M. Irons, a longtime observer and participant in Massachusetts politics who is director of external affairs at the Kennedy School, explained yesterday. "[Finnegan] figured a safe campaign offending no one is the best way to win. In a close campaign it doesn't pay to play it safe...
...March 1949, it was over ? or just beginning. That last day's trek, Mao had moved the Zhongyang to Fragrant Hill so its fires twinkled above the capital. Mao's troops were still cleaning out the fallen city, and it was not yet safe for him to enter, even though Nationalist dignitaries were about to arrive to sue for peace. Each morning Chou En-lai and Wang Bingnan would drive down to negotiate; each evening they would drive back to report. Mao was inflexible: no terms for surrender. China was his to remake...