Word: defend
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...attacks on Kissinger, Ford has good reason to defend him. The Harris poll shows that Americans continue to believe it is possible to reach long-term agreements with the Soviets (by 44% to 39%) and favor SALT (by 59% to 14%). Louis Harris' latest polls of Republicans and independents indicate that by substantial margins they believe Reagan is better able than Ford to handle such domestic issues as inflation, Government spending and inspiring confidence in the White House, but Ford is far ahead in handling relations with Russia, China and Western Europe...
Thus on the campaign trail Ford plans to emphasize his capabilities in foreign affairs. Whether or not a SALT deal is signed, the President is committed to support detente. If he fails to defend it now, he may encourage isolationism and a return to the cold war-and lose the election as well. But to defend detente the President also has to stand up for its chief architect, Kissinger. Says a top presidential adviser...
Whether the decision to evict the students was a justifiable response to the conduct the six were charged with by some House residents in The Crimson--drunkenness, rowdiness, and hazing among them--will not be known unless the students are given a chance to defend themselves against their accusers and the Pians, South House's masters, justify the eviction. Thus far, the incident has only revealed how unfair secret University decisions involving students...
Territoriality: Territoriality, in Wilson's usage, implies only that people will defend, at least some of the time, if they can and if they are threatened, the resources crucial to their survival. All evidence from anthropological studies supports this proposition...
...professed not to see any problem with this. 'Mao taught us that a peasant revolution can be successful, but the people have to be willing to suffer,' said Savimbi, who spent nine months in China in 1965. 'When one has a garden in the bush to defend, one will defend it. We are asking [people] to go into the bush and plant a garden to support themselves...