Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commitment to programs of longterm, peaceful economic and social assistance for Central America, Reagan implicitly justified his Administration's policy of CIA-backed warfare against Nicaragua. He summed up his challenge to Congress in martial terms: "Will we support freedom in this hemisphere or not? Will we defend our vital interests in this hemisphere or not? Will we stop the spread of Communism in this hemisphere or not? Will we act while there is still time...
Last December, Vice President George Bush read the riot act to government and military leaders in San Salvador, privately naming names and demanding action by January. Yet even State Department officials who defend the Administration's overall position acknowledge that Washington has sent too many "mixed signals." Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Nestor Sanchez, for example, has stated repeatedly that the U.S.'s first priority is the protection of El Salvador against Communism, a remark that some Salvadorans have interpreted to mean that the Administration, feeling forced to pick between two evils, would tolerate death squads rather than...
...aspects of a drastic change in mood that las descended upon Nicaragua's 2.9 million people. Only a few months ago, citizens eagerly rallied by the thousands to listen to the exhortations of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). The reason: a willingness at that time to defend the 1979 revolution hat ousted Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle against the increasingly bold attacks of "Yankee imperialism," embodied in the contra forces trained and supplied by the Central Intelligence Agency...
...surprisingly, the bankers defend their charges. Explains James Maher, First Boston's managing director: "We have this incredible infrastructure, and it is geared up all the time, whether we get the business or not. For every successful transaction, there can be ten or 15 we do not make...
...heavies don't have a tradition anything like that Harvard clearly leads every other competitor in number of Eastern titles won. The Crimson also has a national title to defend, but first-seeded Navy and second-seeded Brown stand squarely...