Word: defend
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...Shau Valley. The heavily populated and strategically important Mekong Delta and the eleven provinces around Saigon face no substantial military danger. While ARVN troops have performed disappointingly in some recent battles in Cambodia and Laos, the litmus test of the Vietnamization program is how they will defend themselves inside South Viet...
...When this group of attackers retired," journalist Mora said, "some people who were watching from the roofs or their houses threw down sticks for the students to defend themselves. Some bricklayers at a nearby construction site gave the students pieces of wood with the same intention...
That presents Washington with a triangular dilemma, wrapped in official mythology, encased in old enmities, and enshrouded in the shaky precedents of international law. The U.S. cannot recognize Peking's claim to Taiwan without disavowing an old ally and denouncing a solemn treaty commitment to defend the island. To uphold Chiang's contention that he represents the 800 million Chinese on the mainland, as well as those on Taiwan, is simply no longer tenable. To recognize the claims of both governments is impossible. The major questions...
...Walls. Even the A.M.A. now recognizes health care as a right. But it is still unwilling to go along with Kennedy-Griffiths. Dr. Max Parrott, chairman of the A.M.A.'s board of trustees, describes Kennedy's bill as "rigid" and "monolithic." Parrott and many of his colleagues defend the existing system and seek to eliminate what they see as its most egregious inequity with their tax-credit bill. "Some people are denied health care because of their inability to pay for it," says Dr. Richard S. Wilbur, A.M.A. deputy vice president. "Medicredit will take care of that problem...
...systems by which a particular act or tactic is judged "moral" or "immoral." and Alinsky's many critics have so regularly attacked the means he uses to win change, even when they claim to agree with the changes he is fighting for, that he has repeatedly been constrained to defend his ethics. His defense of his own ethical relativism in Rules for Radicals comes almost incidentally along with a chapter that examines how systems of ethics actually work in politics, a chapter called "Of Means and Ends." The defense proves, as the work of his life suggests, that Alinsky...