Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that it broke off at the end of 1983, when the NATO missile deployment began. Moscow had long insisted that the U.S. would have to pull the missiles out as a precondition for new talks, but Gromyko made no such demand last week. Shultz did not even have to defend the U.S. plan to begin testing an ASAT system this spring. Gromyko had been expected to repeat a Soviet demand of last summer that any new negotiations begin with a moratorium on antisatellite tests, but according to U.S. briefers, he never mentioned the subject...
That is a prospect that the superpowers faced once before and decided to avoid. They realized in the early '70s that virtually no matter what they did to defend themselves, in the end offense would always prevail. That fact seemed built into the sheer destructiveness of nuclear weapons and the relative ease with which one side could proliferate its offenses in order to overwhelm the other side's defenses...
Everyone is entitled to his or her political opinion. The question is whether or not one would defend to the death, or pay hard cash to hear, Goldie Hawn's. For as executive producer and star of Protocol, she posits the notion that to secure a strategic base in a mythical Arabian emirate, the U.S. Government would act as procurer for the pasha. As the Washington cocktail waitress who catches the Emir's eye when she saves him from assassination, Hawn has some good funny moments dealing with the celebrity that follows from her heroism. But Director Herbert Ross stages...
Anthony Russo, a co-defendant with Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon-papers case and a friend of Cooperman's, defends the physicist as "a humanitarian" and claims he was "assassinated" by "right-wing military Vietnamese death squads" in Southern California. Cooperman's widow bitterly resents the allegations of espionage and homosexuality. "I'm being asked continually to defend my husband," she says. "I'm not the victim any more. I'm the accused...
According to Archbishop John Quinn of San Francisco, chairman of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' doctrinal committee, the Vatican had no choice but to defend "the clear and constant teaching of the church that deliberately chosen abortion is objectively immoral." Under the disciplinary provisions of the church, the nuns who have been admonished will have to decide in the coming weeks whether to disavow their statement or face dismissal. Some nuns have already indicated that they will not back down, even though they oppose abortion. Says Sister Donna Quinn of Chicago, executive director of Chicago Catholic Women and past...