Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NATO summit endorsed a long-term plan to improve the alliance's defenses. Pentagon planners estimate that the program will cost between $60 billion and $80 billion, with the U.S. paying a bit more than half. Carter also reaffirmed a longstanding policy to defend Europe with atomic weapons, if necessary. Proclaimed the President: "An attack on Europe would have the full consequences of an attack on the United States. Let there be no misunderstanding, the United States is prepared to use all the forces necessary for the defense of the NATO area...
...many Frenchmen saw it, he nearly got his way. After a month-long dual trial, a court let Burglar Rousseau off with a two-month suspended sentence. As for Owner Legras, however, while no damages were assessed against him, he was declared guilty of using excessive force to defend his home. His sentence: eight months, suspended...
Legras' neighbors were appalled. "A man should want to defend his property from the ravages of criminals," said Marcel Delahaye, mayor of a nearby village. Some 1,000 townspeople marched to the town hall in support of the garage owner, and 6,000 area residents signed pro-Legras petitions. Huffed one observer at Legras' trial: "Who knows when we will find burglars drawing unemployment insurance in case of on-the-job accidents...
...What do we want to do with the Israelis?" cried Republican Jacob Javits of New York. "Sap their vitality? Sap their morale? Cut the legs out from under them?" Replied Democrat Thomas Eagleton of Missouri: "Better that we provide a means for the Saudis to defend [their oil] themselves than face the possibility of some day being forced to commit our own military forces...
Orlov's opportunity to defend himself was sharply restricted. John MacDonald, the British lawyer whom Orlov had wanted as his attorney, was not allowed to enter the Soviet Union. In his place, the court appointed Yevgeni Shalman, a Moscow lawyer who, according to MacDonald, has "worked for the KGB for a time." Neither Orlov nor Shalman, moreover, could cross-examine the prosecution's 15 witnesses or call witnesses of their...