Word: defend
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Costa Rica, by contrast, has sought to defend nothing more than its own implacable neutrality. Ever since a brief revolution in 1948, the country has had no army, no tanks and no troops. Indeed, its defense force might almost have been recruited from the chorus of a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera. The air corps consists of seven planes; the 250-man company that is assigned to defend the capital of San José relies for transportation on a single Land Rover. More than half the 8,000 members of the Civil Guard are traffic policemen, who until recently wielded...
...claiming his solidarity with "the mothers of the heroes and martyrs who have died for the revolution." Jackson met Tomas Borge and Sergio Ramirez Mercado of the ruling junta and spoke harshly of what he saw as U.S. policy: "Now, even after the revolution has triumphed, you have to defend your sovereignty and integrity against those who would invade your borders, mine your harbors or ports, destabilize your economy and assassinate your citizens...
...under certain circumstances and grave events, organized to defend our brothers." Paul Eidelberg, a professor at Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv, argues that there is a difference between Israeli and Arab terrorism: "Arab violence against Jews is ultimately against the very existence of the Jewish state. In contrast, when Jews resort to violence against Arabs, they are not denying Israel's right to exist as a sovereign state." That sentiment reaches right into the government. Science and Technology Minister Yuval Ne'eman said in May that while he condemned "blind terror," the assaults on the mayors had "positive results...
...vulnerability has forced this country of 1.6 million people, about half of whom are foreigners, to turn reluctantly for help to the U.S. Kuwait publicly appealed to the U.S. for a shipment of shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles (400 of which were recently supplied to the Saudis) to defend itself against potential Iranian air attacks on its refineries, power stations and desalination plants. Though the Reagan Administration denied the request because of anticipated congressional opposition, the U.S. is offering instead to increase Kuwait's supply of American-made Hawk missiles and augment its skimpy radar facilities. For the past...
...apocalyptic danger of their being fired in anger, strategic nuclear weapons represent a momentous, complex and delicate aspect of the Soviet-U.S. relationship. They have come to symbolize both nations' assertion of their global, often conflicting interests and their willingness to use ultimate force to defend those interests. It is their huge nuclear stockpiles that make these two countries truly superpowers, and it is the antagonism between them that makes them arm so heavily against each other; peace, and the survival of the planet, depends on the maintenance of a stable balance between the two arsenals...