Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Libya tried to interfere with the fighter patrols, the Navy pilots would undoubtedly defend themselves, as in 1981, when they knocked down two Libyan jets over the gulf after one had opened fire. But targets within Libya also look tempting to some U.S. strategists. One is an expanding military air base, nine miles south of the coastal city of Surt, where intelligence satellites show construction of twelve Soviet SA-5 ground-to-air missile sites. Another potential target is a nuclear-reactor project being built along the coast with Soviet help. A dangerous complication: the reactor and the batteries...
Gaddafi branded the Navy exercise "aggressive provocation," which seemed roughly accurate. Ordering his armed forces on "total alert," he sent aircraft to fly over the gulf "to defend Libya's territorial waters." On Friday four Libyan MiG fighters headed toward the U.S. carriers, which were then about 300 miles offshore and well north of the point that Gaddafi calls "the line of death" and has staked out as his sea boundary (midway between the 32nd and 33rd parallels, 130 miles from the Libyan coast). When Navy jets were directed toward the Libyan aircraft, the Libyan pilots quickly turned back...
...received two important boosts in her low-budget, grass-roots campaign. One came from the organized left, which decided to boycott the election. That decision by a variety of organizations that have proved to be susceptible to New People's Army influence made it easier for Aquino to defend herself against Marcos' charges that she is a cat's-paw for the Communist insurgents...
Faced with a complicated problem, kill whoever disagrees with you. Kill 'em for America, kill 'em to defend our system of peace and justice...
...neither case do those excluded have ground for serious complaint, unless sexual discrimination is wrong, intrinsically, a proposition hard to defend at Harvard, whose sister, Radcliffe, frankly discriminates against males. (Harvard considers students enrolled in Radcliffe to "be enrolled, in accordance with present practice, in Harvard College with all the rights and privileges accorded Harvard College enrollment;" Radcliffe is not so generous. So, the Radcliffes are Harvard, but the Harvards aren't Radcliffes...