Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shores of this country were threatened," says John Kerry, 27, a former Navy lieutenant junior grade, "I'd be the first to defend it." In Viet Nam, Kerry commanded a "swift boat" in the Mekong Delta. Before he went to Viet Nam he graduated from Yale, where he belonged to Skull and Bones; while in Viet Nam he won a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Kerry appeared on NBC's Meet the Press early last week and later before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Some of his rhetoric was exggerated and irrational, but there...
...Federal Bureau of Intimidation," the Senator said: "Despite Mr. Nixon's words, I cannot believe that he can any longer with a straight face profess his confidence in Mr. Hoover." In fact, the mounting campaign against Hoover has probably forced the White House to defend the FBI chief at a time when it privately would have welcomed his resignation...
Pentagon officials announced yesterday their plans to defend the city. According to a Pentagon statement, about 500 members of the 519th Military Police Battalion, seven Army Helicopters and troops from seven bases throughout the mid-South are on call to "assist local civilian law enforcement authorities...
...statement said that the disruption of the Counter Teach-In "revealed the lack of free speech at Harvard, and the University's inability or unwillingness to defend that right...
...academic freedom, except when the war in Vietnam is invoked. When challenged by radical antiwar students, the majority put up a weak defense or no defense of academic freedom. Out go the liberal principles of Voltaire, who said, "I may disagree with what you say. but I will defend with my life your right to say it." In came the revolutionary ideals of Marceusse (?) "Free speech for those who believe in the revolution." If the FBI were to inquire after the facts, academic freedom would be invoked as a cloak to deny the public knowledge of what revolution Harvard students...