Word: defend
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...defeating the contras. The only way we have to influence the Reagan Administration is to demonstrate the will of our people to defend the revolution. Our defeat of the contras will be a defeat for the U.S. policy of intervention and aggression. Nevertheless, we have got to prepare Nicaragua for the worst. If the U.S. were to invade us, it would not be the first time...
Changing tactics abruptly is nothing new for the A.N.C. Founded in 1912 by a group of urban blacks to "defend Africans against repression," the organization started off seeking change through reform rather than revolution. After scant progress, the A.N.C. several years later began encouraging strikes and boycotts by black workers. It also organized demonstrations against discriminatory laws, particularly the requirement that blacks carry passes. During one such protest at Sharpeville near Johannesburg in 1960, police opened fire on the demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding more than 100. The A.N.C. and the rival Pan Africanist Congress (P.A.C.), which organized the protest...
...battlefield nukes against the Warsaw Pact's numerically superior armies were a very effective deterrent. But the Soviets continued to strengthen both their nuclear and their conventional forces. As a result, Europeans began to be concerned that the U.S. would not use its nuclear arms to defend the Continent, for fear of provoking a Soviet counterattack against American cities. Last week, after 18 months of research, 27 prominent U.S. and European defense specialists issued the 260-page Report of the European Security Study, which attempts to rethink NATO strategy in the light of the Soviet buildup.* Their conclusion...
...cripple enemy airpower by a massive counterattack on Warsaw Pact airbases. To check the enemy's second wave, Western forces would have to destroy logistic chokepoints such as bridges and ammunition depots. These goals would be supplemented by efforts to disrupt Warsaw Pact communications electronically and to defend NATO command centers from comparable enemy efforts...
...third praiseworthy attribute of Professor Klein is her insistence of critical evaluation, hard work, and precise arguments. However else her courses might be described, they are not considered "guts." To do well, one must think clearly and defend one's position. She warns incoming students that to believe one view or another is quite different from articulating that view, building an argument for or against it, or criticizing it--all of which she insists upon...