Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...analyze the charges. Almazov, who appeared irritated because prolonging the case would delay his vacation, set the trial for July 7. Complained Whitney after the hearing: "The way we were treated raises serious doubts about whether participating in this trial is advisable. If we are not able to defend ourselves, then the aim of this trial is not justice. There is some obscure political purpose." U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon told U.S. correspondents in Moscow that he thought the Soviet intent was clear: "This is an effort to get a message across to you people that unless you confine your quotations...
...courage," particularly "among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite"-a point that must have stung his audience. He spoke scathingly of America's intoxication with "habitual extreme safety and well-being "; its devotion to the letter of the law, which paralyzes the country's ability "to defend itself against the corrosion of evil"; the absorption of the Western press with "gossip, nonsense, vain talk...
...becoming firmer and stronger, " while in the West they are being sapped by "today's mass living habits ... by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor and by intolerable music." His message: "No weapons ... can help the West until it overcomes its loss of will power ... To defend oneself, one must also be ready to die; there is little such readiness in a society raised in the cult of material wellbeing. "At the heart of these problems, as he sees it, is the "rationalistic humanism "rooted in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, when "we turned our backs upon...
...need to defend what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes used to call '"freedom for the thought that we hate" is not easy to accept, for a public whose thoughts naturally turn to gas chambers and attempted genocide. The A.C.L.U. has been bitterly attacked for defending Nazis' rights. Its membership, heavily Jewish, has dropped from a peak of 270,000 in 1976 to 200,000 today. A resultant $500,000 decline in dues and gifts has caused staff layoffs of up to 15% in some state offices. There is now less money to defend civil rights and liberties...
...former magistrates among its members. Their goal: a broader legal definition of legitimate self-defense. Says the movement's founder, former senior magistrate Francis Romerio: "Burglars can choose the time and place of their activities; police cannot. So it is only legitimate that a citizen should be able to defend his family and property the way he chooses...