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...crowd of 200,000, shouting "Makarios! Makarios!" welcomed him and offered its support for a settlement between Greeks and Turks. "Proceed, proceed," the crowd chanted. "The people are with you." Though he would never accept a partition of the island, Makarios said, "it is possible to safeguard the rights of both Greeks and Turks...
...want to be a PLA woman to safeguard our motherland," said the third, the one who'd looked amused. So it was clearer than ever how little I knew; because in a battle between her and the vice political commissar, how could I tell who would win, or whether it would even be a contest? All I could tell for sure is that once in a while, now, I miss Shanghai, where the lights stretch on for miles at night but it feels as though everyone knows everyone else. So I guess that will have...
...Secondary School in Hangchow, kids were able to give pretty detailed accounts of the history of Bangladesh, say. But those answers about Cuba still came back to me a few times. Once when someone was explaining how the landlords had finally done an about-face and adopted Confucianism to safeguard their privileges, I asked why this hadn't happened sooner. "Well," the man explained, "they needed it to prevent revolts." Had there been a big wave of revolts? "There were constant revolts, all along." Then why just then? He gave me a pitying smile...
That evidently was not the intent of Congress in creating the CIA and giving it almost complete autonomy to safeguard its secrecy. Originally the agency's principal task was to gather intelligence and keep the Government informed about other countries, particularly the Communist nations...
...foreign policy that so thoroughly embraces as friends corrupt and reactionary political figures cannot be easily cleansed. Too many people are soiled. The elimination of a secretive body such as the 40 Committee is hardly a safeguard against the continuation of activities similar to the once-covert ones in Chile. The real place to begin is with the members of that committee, particularly its chairman, Henry A. Kissinger '50, who directly authorized the expenditures by the CIA in Chile. His activity in this affair was but one move toward making the world safe not for peace but for the protection...