Word: safes
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This concentrated, unrelenting application of mass terror by the United States was not the product of a temporary moral lapse--a theory which appears to be in vogue. On the contrary, it was a calculated effort to crush a decades-old struggle against colonialism, an attempt to keep Asia safe for imperialist plunder. Fortunately for the Vietnamese, it was not successful...
Steiger and his allies assert that high capital gains taxes hit the economy precisely where it is most vulnerable. They steer investors away from innovative, high-risk ventures and push people to buy such securities as bonds of mature companies, which yield a steady, safe return. That return is taxed at ordinary-income rates, to be sure, but then capital gains rates are no longer low enough to compensate investors for extra risk. Supporters of Steiger argue persuasively that cutting capital gains rates would raise federal revenues rather than reduce them. People would sell assets they have been salting away...
These allegations are clearly exaggerated. Stringent enforcement of security measures has kept fissionable materials safe-the country already handles such hazardous substances as explosives and deadly chemicals-without impinging upon personal freedoms. The U.S. decision not to sell uranium-enrichment and reprocessing technology abroad will do nothing to prevent weapons proliferation. Indeed, it will cost America its chance to control international traffic in nuclear materials. France and the Soviet Union are reprocessing nuclear fuels for shipment to other countries...
...negligent disposal of chemicals 16 years ago; Canadian environmental protection officials are currently investigating the construction industry's use of contaminated landfill from an abandoned uranium mine in Quebec, and have unveiled radioactive highways and beaches and backyard gardens. Scientists have discovered that long-term exposure to federally-rated "safe" low-level radiation has killed people living and working near nuclear power plants. These researchers have seen their money withdrawn and their findings have gone unpublished...
...Monday, Pinochet's military stormed the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, to depose and murder Salvadore Allende Gossens. Five years ago today, Nixon and Kissinger chortled over the success of their best laid plans to foment the coup, to "make the economy scream" in Chile, to make the world safe for democracy...