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...most students on campus, the Advocate is "that place where they have great parties," "Obnoxious." "A bastion of phonyism and non-literature," and "All affect and no substance," are less prevalent but equally persistent student comments...
...that time, they had sealed off all roads to the flaming interior to all but emergency crews. But I hitched a ride with a compassionate county worker and came home. Our house was still standing, a fortified bastion...
This fall, as in many years past, students return to the bastion of liberal liberal-arts education that is Harvard University. Most of them accept, even take for granted, the right to freedom of speech guaranteed there under the First Amendment. They champion liberal thought and government by electing supposedly free-thinking politicians to represent them...
...major U.S. military facilities in the Philippines, are vital staging areas for forces in the Pacific, a point that Imelda Marcos delights in driving home. "The Americans need us more than we need them," she told TIME. "They don't realize that if they lose their last bastion in the Pacific, they cannot be a superpower here. We will not allow the U.S. to treat us shabbily." President Ronald Reagan, who has down-played human rights issues since taking office, is exempt from that resentment. "I am a fan of President Reagan," the Philippine First Lady says...
Throughout the trial, the Irish-born Hoare insisted that his operation had had the blessing of the South African government. "I see South Africa as the bastion of civilization in an Africa subjected to a total Communist onslaught," he said. "I foresee myself in the forefront of this fight for our very existence." Indeed, more than half of the convicted mercenaries had been members of either the South African Defense Force or the army reserve. There was also evidence that Soviet-made AK-47s and Chinese grenades and ammunition used by the mercenaries had been supplied by South African Defense...