Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murders are accepted as a matter of course by most of the white middle class), but-as the media never tired of repeating-the children of middle America, kids like the kids next door. Liberal response was impressive-Ramsey Clark and Mark Lane, among others, came to Ohio to defend those indicted. The pressure has paid off in some partial victories for the Kent 25: two weeks ago, a Federal district judge invalidated the Ohio grand jury report and ordered all available copies burned because it might prejudice jurors if the case came to trial. Ohio State Attorney General William...
...frequent repetition of the phrase "academic community" in the Resolution is, of course, no accident. The CRR is the ultimate bulwark against the outside world. It keeps out "the coercive arm of the outside community," as Kilson put it. But while supporters of the CRR defend the concept of the separate academic community, they ignore that community's involvement in the outside world. It is this involvement which motivates most of the turmoil the CRR judges. It would be lovely to live in a world where a pure academic community can exist, where scholars needn't think about atrocities outside...
...Laotian Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, said that the Laotian government "deplored once again that foreign troops belonging to countries and governments that have pledged to guarantee and defend the sovereignty, neutrality and inviolability of Laos have chosen to deliberately use her territory as a field of battle...
...guests sat comfortably in the big leather chairs of the White House Roosevelt Room until the President jolted them with a question: "Is there anybody here who will defend the status quo? Please stand." None of the 28 Washington lobbyists from such powerful industries as oil, coal and trucking did; optimistic presidential aides interpreted the silence as an indication that Richard Nixon had scored a few more points in his own intense lobbying for his domestic reforms...
...case involved Gerald D. McLemore, a black Army private charged with killing a white G.I. in Viet Nam. But a far broader issue soon emerged: McLemore's civilian lawyers claimed they could not defend him adequately because they had been prevented from communicating with him. At a recent military hearing in Saigon, McLemore's attorneys from the Lawyers Military Defense Committee documented an almost incredible story of how the Army had sabotaged their organization...