Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arriving in Washington, Rabin maintained that "only a strong Israel, which has the capacity to deter aggression and to defend herself successfully by her own strength, has a chance of winning peace." In Jerusalem, those words were interpreted as a thinly disguised warning that Israel, if it felt it was losing the ability to defend itself, might once again decide on a pre-emptive war. But in his conversations with Ford and Kissinger, which White House officials described as "reasonably successful," Rabin laid out some of his government's thoughts about making progress toward peace...
...protect birds is to defend humanity" seems a strange slogan for a whisky distiller. But then, Keizo Saji, 54, chairman and president of Japan's Suntory Ltd., and coiner of the slogan, is a rather strange bird himself. Every year, in addition to contributing one-third of the profits of his privately owned, Osaka-based company (annual sales: $966 million) to an employee benefits program, he contributes an other third to charitable and cultural causes, nota bly the preservation of the 490 species of birds found in Japan...
...approval of Jesuit headquarters in Rome) only after "careful review and discussion" with O'Rourke. But Father Frederick O'Connor, the superior who had originally ordered O'Rourke not to perform the baptism, wondered whether the young Jesuit had been given "ample opportunity and assistance to defend himself...
...bidding for more leftist support but is not so well organized as the Communists. The strength of the Communists clearly causes Spinola concern. "We cannot consent to the installation of a dictatorship under the cover of liberty," he said recently. "If the silent majority does not wake up and defend its liberties, the 25th of April will have been in vain...
...were caused by exploitation by both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and "the large population of the Third World is an important condition for the fight against imperialism." Even India, which has one of the world's most acute problems in feeding its 550 million people, failed to defend the U.S. proposals, claiming that fertility controls were doomed as long as rich countries waste their resources and indulge in "superconsumerism." As the conference ended last week, the final recommendation put forward by the delegates linked family planning with "socioeconomic development," which requires massive infusions of foreign aid. Many underdeveloped...