Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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South Vietnamese troops formed a new line North of Hue yesterday in an attempt to defend the city against a general North Vietnamese offensive...
...North Vietnamese are moving south toward Hue after their victory at Quang Tri. A U.S. officer said an attack on Hue, 32 miles south of Quang Tri. could come at any time. He added that South Vietnamese commanders are confident that their forces can successfully defend...
Several thousand South Vietnamese troops--and at least 20 Americans--attempted to battle their way south from Quang Tri last night, as efforts to defend the city were formally abandoned...
...insisted that the Commander in Chief's constitutional duty to protect American troops justified the bombing raids. Conceivably, that rationale could cover tactical air-support missions in support of ARVN troops in South Viet Nam, where American forces remain, but it is a thinner reed to lean on to defend bombing the North Vietnamese capital and the country's biggest port...
...before the Cold War entered its grimmest phase. He was spared the choices which faced other anticommunist leftists in the collision of the American and Soviet superstates. Orwell had tried desperately to carve out a place for a radical democratic socialism which would have no need either to defend the tergiversations of Stalin and his heirs in Moscow or to cling to American capitalism, which he regarded with contempt and horror. During the last years of his life he felt the opportunity for such a movement slipping away, and one is left to wonder how he would have responded when...