Word: defend
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...What I do object to, and what I believe the Harvard administration objects to, is the Moonies' apparent brainwashing of my peers and possible ties with the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (now under investigation by Congress). I do not feel that Harvard has the obligation Kilson implies to defend such activities. Indeed, support for brainwashing and the South Korean CIA area the real "anti-freedom pressures" (Kilson's own words), and not the desire to see the Moonies removed from Harvard...
Dissident Issue. Neither Berlinguer nor Marchais has any desire to provoke a rupture with Moscow over the dissident issue. Not now at least. The Italians defend free expression but draw the line at anti-Soviet hostility. The party still has a large constituency of working-class oldtimers who not only look to Moscow as their ideological mecca but who have grown restive about Berlinguer's tacit support for Premier Giulio Andreotti's Christian Democratic minority government. When Carrillo recently declared that repression of dissidents showed that the "Soviet Union is not really a popular democracy but a dictatorship...
...mild attempt to defend his comrades' failure to take a clear stand on human rights, Carrillo drew an analogy with his own 37 years in exile when "not one-millionth of the voices that are now raised to defend the dissidents of the East raised themselves [to defend] not only my rights but the rights of this country." Nonetheless, he added emotionally, "We do not hesitate in condemning with all our energy violations [of liberty and democracy] wherever they may occur, even when those responsible belong to parties that affirm socialist ideals. In the systems of socialist countries, what...
...Windsorgate. That is nothing new. Though Fleet Street's influential national dailies are freighted with sex, scandal and scholarly dissertations on foreign policy, hard-digging investigative reporting is all but impossible. "Our law and our attitudes have been conditioned to defend free speech rather than free inquiry," observes Editor Harold Evans, whose exceptionally aggressive Sunday Times has repeatedly incurred government wrath in the past decade. "It is all right to utter opinion but not to publish the supporting evidence." Thus probably no British newspaper would have got away with a disclosure similar to the Washington Post's report...
...Wacker refused yesterday to name the doctors involved. UHS has been sued for malpractice in the past, he said, but he couldn't recall how often. He said that UHS's insurance company hires attorneys to defend malpractice suits...