Word: warns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting his way. But we have reached an understanding, is that not so, Companero Castro?" Castro's reply, if there was one, was indistinct. Some observers speculated that the Russians, who have had some success with their Via Pacifica policy in Latin America, wanted to warn Castro against resuming an unsettling, subversive role in the region. 3. A Pleader in the West
...internal problems seem endless. A substantial group of people still live below the poverty level. Religious differences have been papered over but hardly solved. Orthodox newspapers regularly preach against licentiousness and warn of a crisis in faith and morals. Israeli doctors recently carried out a two-hour work stoppage because extremists were daubing the homes and cars of pathologists with obscenities; the Orthodox object to autopsies, which are proscribed on religious grounds...
...first Soviet secret policeman, Feliks E. Dzerzhinsky, who ran the police until his death in 1926. In the same building is dank Lubyanka prison, where political prisoners undergo their initial conditioning; in his novel The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote how its warders clicked their tongues to warn each other whenever they were escorting a prisoner: "One prisoner must never be allowed to encounter another, never be allowed to draw comfort or support from the look in his eyes...
...information about Soviet military developments and Chinese nuclear-weapons progress, and with sound assessments of the situation in Viet Nam (which were frequently ignored 6y policymakers). Among its setbacks: the Bay of Pigs, although this was a failure of decision making as well as intelligence, and the failure to warn of the Berlin Wall's construction in 1961 or Khruschchev's fall from power in 1964. In some cases, the agency was plagued by the ever-present problem of drawing the line between operations and intelligence; the line became unrecognizably blurred in places like Laos and Guatemala...
...underdeveloped countries and plant trees in prison courtyards. One chapter even raised $2,500 to buy a used fire truck for an impoverished Indian reservation in Nebraska. An Illinois chapter has developed a highly successful ex-offenders employment service. In North Carolina, Jaycee convicts have toured nearby schools to warn students of the dangers of drugs, and inmate Jaycees in Washington State and Maryland have helped push prison-reform bills through the state legislatures...