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...leader Mikhail Gorbachev, encouraged by Western assurances, pursued glasnost (openness) before perestroika (restructuring) and saw the Soviet Union split apart in 1991. Like the U.S.S.R., China consists of many cultures and ethnic groups. Chinese leaders have decided, very wisely, to pursue their policies in the right sequence. They will safeguard their territorial integrity by building a strong economy and sharing prosperity among all Chinese over the next two decades. Other issues will have to wait. Sartaj Aziz Islamabad...
While Harvard’s leaders would not allow any communist faculty on campus—a virtual impossibility in the tense climate of the 1950s—they did pledge to safeguard the intellectual liberty of the University and supported a tenured professor who came under suspicion...
...adopting a hard-line strategy in Aceh? RYAMIZARD: No region can be allowed to break away. That includes Aceh and Papua. Even if those making noises (about independence) number up to a million, this is a country of more than 220 million people. Our job is to safeguard unity. Our job is to destroy GAM's military capability. Issues of justice, religion, autonomy, social welfare, education?those are not the Indonesian military's problems...
...report on the looting of Iraq's museums and libraries, TIME stated that "while coalition forces took pains to safeguard Iraq's oil ministry in Baghdad, they left the nation's cultural heritage wide open" [BAGHDAD'S TREASURES, April 28]. This is an example of the cultural bankruptcy that characterizes the Bush Administration. The price of one jet bomber would go a long way toward endowing any major U.S. museum, helping ensure fiscal stability for generations. Actions by the coalition forces to protect the Iraq Museum might have done much to convince people throughout the Middle East that we were...
...genie is out of the bottle, the outcome may be impossible to control. The long-term effects of genetically modified food, gene therapy and even the radiation from mobile phones are just not known, critics argue, so why are we rushing to develop these potentially harmful technologies? The surest safeguard against such danger is to deny the world the basic science that underpins these advances. So, should scientists stop their research - even if it is in itself safe and ethical - simply because of unease about where it might lead? Should we go slow in some areas, or leave some doors...