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...licensing procedures already required by the state. He also plans to push for a law banning the city's practice of allowing a principal to serve as the head of his school for as long as he wishes, a kind of lifetime tenure that Fernandez claims can shield poor performers. "I have a low threshold for tolerating incompetence," he says...
...including five Americans, was taken to the mainland and forced to march into the jungle. Next day, they were abandoned without food and finally rescued. At the international airport two terrified American women were threatened with death by a group of 30 P.D.F. soldiers, who used them as a shield against U.S. paratroopers surrounding the terminal. The two were freed just before dawn after the American soldiers told the gunmen that Noriega had been killed and their cause was futile...
...there was no shoot-out. Instead, as part of an agreement brokered by the Roman Catholic Church, the guerrillas slipped away, and the U.S. soldiers, using journalists as a shield, ran from the hotel to waiting military vehicles. But so alarming was the event that President George Bush, acutely mindful that he had been seen to be dithering during October's aborted coup in Panama, quickly convened a meeting of a National Security Council emergency group and ordered a small contingent of the supersecret Delta Force into San Salvador. At one point Bush even made the embarrassing claim that...
...King, in my recent letter to The Crimson. In the context of arguing against equating Zionism with racism, I wrote, "Let us not forget the wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an ardent supporter of the State of Israel, who warned that anti-Zionism often acts as a shield for anti-Semitism." This is crucially different from Larew's "paraphrase" that "criticism of Israel is sometimes a disguise for anti-Semitism...
...wanted to prevent further criticism of Colonel North and myself," he explained to a judge. "There had already been a fire storm in the press. I was trying to shield both of us." Though Secord won dismissal of eleven other counts lodged by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh in exchange for the plea bargain, he could be sentenced to a $250,000 fine and five years in prison...