Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Homing Overlay was "completely and absolutely compliant" with the 1972 anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that banned the deployment of defensive missile systems while allowing experiments to proceed. (The Soviets were permit ted to keep the ABM system they had already built to defend Moscow.) So far, the Soviets have had no official reaction to the Homing Overlay test, even though an electronic spy ship stationed off Kwajalein monitored the entire experiment...
...most fanatical leader of Sikh extremists, Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, 37, who had provoked the violence, lay among the dead. Just weeks before, he had vowed to defend to the death his supporters' demands for increased religious and political autonomy. "Let them come," he had said. "We will give them battle. If die we must, then we will take many of them with...
...their disapproval, but, given their more pressing concern for the free speech of scheduled speakers--in this case Weinberger--officials also felt no qualms threatening to discipline two of the hecklers. With some of her older children, however, Mother Harvard faces a still trickier problem; how should the University defend, suppress or ignore the political words or actions of its faculty...
...heightened political involvement of the faculty dating from the New Deal era set the stage for potential conflicts, but the first serious test case came in the 1950s with the rise of McCarthyism. Then, Harvard was forced to defend political actions on the part of some of its faculty lest its silence tacitly betray them. Time and some thoughtful action resolved the immediate crisis during that Cold War era, but the issue of University tolerance of faculty activism remains both relevant and divisive...
...Finney, who last summer won the light-weight pairs national championship and will defend that title this summer, the rapid climb of the Radcliffe squad is a lasting memory she says she'll take with her forever...