Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Udall said that choosing between jobs and the environment is a phony choice. "We'll have an administration that will protect and defend the land, and we'll get American people jobs at the same time," he said...
Harvard's two top racquetmen returned to Princeton this weekend for the 7th Annual Princeton Invitational Indoor Tournament to defend the Crimson's top rank in the fall ECACs. Princeton dominated the tournament, taking the trophies in both singles and doubles...
...where Rostow says something like, "I've never seen the effects of napalm but it can't be all that bad," and he (photographer, then student) turns down house lights and starts up a film showing bombs falling on North Vietnam, while Rostow (unaware of screen behind) continues to defend the war. That cynicism creeps back when the Gamma man talks about Reagan who, according to the Village Voice, last week justified rejecting amnesty by saying that the war should have been made legal and the U.S. should have stayed in there...
...handles foreign affairs with a punchy line for each issue. Defense: We will suffer "the peace of the grave unless we are willing to say we will never be second to any nation on earth in our ability to defend ourselves." Détente: Its major result for the U.S. has been the "acquisition of the right to sell Pepsi-Cola in Siberia." SALT: "The cruise missile: Will it be removed from our defensive arsenal to win a smile from those who continue to pledge and promise our destruction...
...their funds and lives are expended. This is impossible unless they know what the government is doing abroad. The Ford administration, like its predecessors, believes that the purpose of American foreign policy should be the defense of America's status as a great power. This requires the U.S. to defend American military and economic hegemony wherever it seems threatened, as in Vietnam and Angola...