Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Acting Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis, who inherited Wilde's mongrel dogs, Whiskey and Pee Wee, along with his old job, has been in Mogadishu long enough to watch the city go from outright anarchy to "a place that almost feels safe." Bringing peace to Somalia's interior, however, may take some doing. In Baidoa, Purvis saw a young Somali no more than eight years old waltz up to a relief worker who was carrying a bag of cheese-flavored chips. "The kid had an AK-47 draped over his shoulder, its muzzle almost dragging in the dust," says Purvis...
...reformer like Carey turned into an apparent reactionary? Some experts speculate that Carey believes his militant posture is safe now because the Clinton Administration's Justice Department will not hound the Teamsters the way Republican Administrations did. Yet Carey's behavior, past and present, indicates that government supervision is still necessary. For example, the Teamsters leader doubts he "ever would have testified" on behalf of a reputed Lucchese family mobster named John Conti. But court records show that Carey spoke highly of Conti in a criminal case...
...find out." It is getting very, very late for intervention there. Sarajevo's 400,000 residents are reaching the end of their food supplies, since relief flights were suspended on Dec. 1. But few are keen to accept the offer of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to guarantee safe passage to all civilians leaving the city -- an all too facile and cynical turnabout after eight brutal months of Serb barrage...
Nonetheless, NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels worked out contingency plans that ranged from air enforcement of the U.N. ban on Serb military flights over Bosnia to sending troops to create safe havens for potential victims of ethnic cleansing. A senior State Department official believes enforcement of the no-fly zone to be a near certainty, perhaps to be followed by a lifting of the ban on weapons sales to Bosnians...
...Woodrow Wilson, that professor of Presbyterian rectitude who draped foreign policy with a mantle of idealism. His amphibious forays into Latin America were designed, he said, to foster "constitutional liberty." And his rationale for bringing the U.S. into World War I was that "the world must be made safe for democracy." Criticized for being too Wilsonian, he replied, "Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I'm an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world...