Word: safeguards
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...continue to press its allies to bring export standards into line with the full-scope safeguard concept. That may take time and tact. Says former I.A.E.A. Official Fischer: "There is still suspicion in Western Europe of U.S. motives in pressing for full-scope safeguards." Pressure from Washington is sometimes seen by Europeans as a ploy to improve the U.S. competitive position. Nonetheless, Fischer notes, there has been a "very distinct change" in French export practices over the past decade. U.S. pressure has played a role in that...
...even casual trial followers are aware that a public figure who sues a newspaper or magazine for libel must prove not only that the story is false but that it was published with reckless disregard for the truth. This test of "actual malice" was meant to safeguard the press, but in practice it has proved a complex standard that is open to wide interpretation by juries. In recent years, seven out of every ten libel cases lost by the media have been overturned on appeal. However, in an unexpected reversal last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., reinstated...
...blockade the Ho Chi Minh Trail and other supply routes before the invaders became entrenched. By the time Nixon took office in 1969, he says, the only workable option was Vietnamization: turning the fighting over to the South Vietnamese while providing arms, aid, military training and political tutelage to safeguard their future...
...John of the Cross, as "the spiritual teachers of my interior life," and as a young priest he unsuccessfully sought permission to join a related Carmelite order. The Vatican said that the intervention is "an expression of the great interest and the paternal attention of the Holy Father" to safeguard the Carmelites' "unity" and "fidelity." But the action also reflects the Pontiff's insistence that Catholic nuns hold to the old ways of discipline, dress and decorum...
...automated short-range radars capable of detecting and tracking a new generation of low-flying Soviet bombers and even newer Soviet cruise missiles. The project, known as the North Warning System, is part of a more than $5 billion U.S. plan to modernize northern air defenses and safeguard the continent against attacks launched over the North Pole...