Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempting to defend this absurd position, Landau is forced to a series of distortions and lies. Here are just a few of them...
...doomsday scenario, then, would have the Russian trailer getting in just one shot at the 1,000-ft. carrier, presumably not enough to knock it out, before the 450-ft. trailer is attacked by the 164-ft. U.S. patrol craft and must defend itself. The Russians could, of course, assign a smaller boat to trail the U.S. trailer. Eventually a long line of vessels of diminishing size would string out over the Mediterranean. Each would wheel to fire its heavier weapons at the less lethal boat astern. The final casualty might well be a lone U.S. Navy...
...after Cambodia, although they have risen again in the Laos action mainly as the result of enemy antiaircraft fire: at the same time, Vietnamese casualties have soared.) Nixon also admitted that the operations in Laos and Cambodia were partially designed "to increase the ability of the South Vietnamese to defend themselves without our help." The two goals of protecting Americans and strengthening the Vietnamese are almost inseparable in Nixon's definition of Vietnamization, in which U.S. withdrawals are dependent on South Viet Nam's expanding capabilities...
...convention, all the libertarian candidates were defeated and every libertarian plank was rejected. As the voting on the final plank-advocating active resistance to the draft-ended, an anarchist grabbed a microphone in the center of the hall. He asserted that it was the right of any person to defend himself or herself from violence, including the violence of the state, and took what was apparently a draft card from his wallet. Then, standing high on a chair, he brought a cigarette lighter to the card...
...Committee to Defend the Women's Center and the Right to Live, a group of about eight Radcliffe students, yesterday issued a statement supporting the women's demands. "They are not just sitting, paralyzed by Harvard's attempts to remove them; they're building a women's center," the statement said...