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...outcome in Algeria is certain to provide a boost for Islamic movements elsewhere. The prospect that haunts is a militant tide that topples unpopular regimes and replaces them with fundamentalist theocracies. Some leaders are beginning to recognize that the most effective safeguard against radical fundamentalism -- or any other dogmatism -- may be to garner the consent of the governed. Among the countries that have taken tentative steps toward such reforms...
...Chernobyl. The best way is international legislation requiring that all new nuclear reactors be sited deep enough underground so that even a worst-case accident would not discharge radioactive substances into the atmosphere. Existing aboveground reactors should be protected by reliable containment structures. The first priority should be to safeguard atomic plants that supply power and heat to large cities, reactors with graphite moderators like the one that malfunctioned at Chernobyl, and fast-neutron breeder reactors...
...told a joint session of Congress that as the provisions of the conference were carried out, "there will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power, or any other of the special arrangements through which, in the unhappy past, the nations strove to safeguard their security or to promote their interests...
...claim a moral right to "rip people out of the closet" -- either to force them to help the movement or to nullify them as opponents. The main targets are elected officials and religious leaders who may enjoy a gay life in private but who endorse antigay measures to safeguard their careers. Radical gays go further, pointing the finger at entertainment and media figures and even ordinary citizens...
...Maxwell Thurman, commanding general ofU.S. forces in Panama, said Noriega's surrender"completes the fourth of our four objectives" ininvading Panama in Operation Just Cause. Theothers, he said, were to protect American lives,safeguard the Panama Canal treaties and restoredemocracy to Panama...