Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday approved President Nixon's request for $255 million in aid to Cambodia, but simultaneously denied any intention to obligate U. S. troops to defend that country...
Laird also disputed charges that the public had been misled over reconnaissance flights in the North and the purpose of the raid on the Son Tay prison compound there. He was appearing before the committee to defend an administration request for $340 million in supplemental military aid this fiscal year to several nations including Cambodia...
...differentials among campus workers- administration spokesman parroted old saws about the need for "rational discussion" (while, in fact, they never discussed and had no way of dealing with the real issues except to resort to suspensions and expulsions). However, when SDS and UAG now challenge the CFIA to defend its existence in a public debate, we are told that we are incapable of "serious and rational discussion." If the CFIA were confident that SDS and UAG would really debate in an "irrational" manner in front of hundreds of people, they would be clamoring for this debate. What they fear...
...agreed to grow a beard. Now the amiable Hughes talks of quitting law and becoming a character actor. Manson brought in Irving Kanarek, 52, whom he regarded as the most obstructionist and time-consuming lawyer in Los Angeles, in hopes of badgering the judge into allowing him to defend himself. When the judge continued to refuse, Kanarek proceeded to exasperate even Manson with a blizzard of objections. The third member of the courtroom team was Daye Shinn, 53, a former used-car salesman of Korean descent, who specializes in immigration cases for wealthy clients seeking Mexican maids. Manson took...
...somewhat idle; anyway there's a boycott on. We decide we want to improve the conditions for migrant workers and we can join consumers and chain stores in organized activity. It worked once with grapes. In this frame of mind, we can be rather startled when our administrators defend their position on lettuce by admitting that their policy on grapes had been equally impervious to moral argument. We knew that Harvard had stopped buying grapes, but little did we suspect prohibitive prices to be the reason...