Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made the warning public, Sakharov was denounced by 40 members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, to which he belongs. The only surprise in the denunciation was the fact that it was signed by so few of the academy's 248 members, indicating that if they could not defend Sakharov, most of the scientists would at least not attack...
...economic chaos leads the Congress to censure the President repeatedly. (This requires only a simple majority, which the opposition parties command, not the two-thirds necessary for impeachment.) Military leaders are warned that if they join the Cabinet they may be liable to prosecution for violating their oath to defend the constitution if they help a President who is acting illegally. Allende is eventually humiliated and resigns, to be succeeded, in the absence of an effective Cabinet, by the president of the Senate-who is none other than Eduardo Frei...
...performance of the duties that he has had as Vice President and as a candidate for Vice President." That seemed to leave rather large chunks of Agnew's past-indeed, his whole climb prior to becoming Nixon's running mate in 1968-for the Vice President to defend...
...gentlemanly debate over one of the most fundamental constitutional controversies in U.S. history. Cox, though nominally an employee of Nixon's Administration, had subpoenaed nine of the President's secret tape recordings, all containing presidential conversations concerning the Watergate break-in and coverup. Wright was there to defend the President's refusal to surrender them. Both sides had thoroughly covered the legal ground in written briefs -totaling 50 pages by Wright, 68 by Cox-delivered to the court during the two weeks before the hearing. Still, the oral arguments last week gave a fresh perspective...
...home. They contended that Prats was compromising the military's traditional neutralism and demanded that he leave the Cabinet. He acceded when the opposition majority in the Chamber of Deputies rammed through a resolution charging that the military members of the Cabinet were violating their oath to defend the constitution by supporting a government that was acting illegally...