Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's lightweight crew, jumping out to a quick three-quarter length lead at the start, overwhelmed Dartmouth, MIT, and the Coast Guard to defend its Biglin Bowl championship with a four-and-a-half length victory Saturday on the Charles...
...Saigon government, it was imperative that ARVN prove itself able to defend a city that in normal times and good weather, is only a two-hour drive from the capital. The Communists have so far been frustrated in their attempts to capture the old imperial capital of Hue or the city of Quang Tri farther north, and it is believed that An Loc was to have been the seat of a provisional Viet Cong government. It should not have been a difficult target. In Binh Long province, the chief ARVN force was the 10,000-man 5th Division, a weak...
...townspeople, exuding the blithe fatalism common to many Vietnamese, seemed to be enjoying the show. "Some people are scared," confessed Restaurateur, Tu Ca, "but not enough to leave. Some of the rich have taken their children to Saigon, but all the regular people stay." Ca intended to stay and defend his reputation for serving the town's best chao long (a soup concocted of pork, noodles and vegetables...
...LATEST Nixon escalation of the War in Southeast Asia--the bombing of Haiphong and Hanoi--renews the U.S. commitment to defend the threatened Thieu government at any cost. The new escalation is open-ended and runs the clear risk of catastrophic confrontation with the Soviet Union. The war will not go away: Nixon remains committed to military victory. It must be resisted by the American public...
...latest escalation of the war in Southeast Asia--the bombing of Haiphong and Hanoi--once again underscores the determination of the Nixon Administration to defend the Thieu regime at almost any cost...