Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spartacists in attendance argued for what they call Russian socialist accomplishments. "The basic difference is that we defend the gains of the Russian revolution, and the ISO doesn't," said Spart Thomas N. Crean...
Zappa, whose avant garde music has consistently freaked out generations of rock fans, will defend the right of musicians to express themselves freely without the threat of censorship, said David C. Michael '87, vice-chairman of the Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics...
There are those who suggest the Lowell House protestors are entitled to leniency because they were demonstrating against a representative of a widely denounced government. However, the target of their protests could just as easily have been a Harvard professor speaking against divestiture, or an Israeli diplomat here to defend Israel's ties with South Africa. By denying one speaker his civil liberties, students deny them to all speakers...
...Managua, on the day of Ortega's speech, Sandinista police tried unsuccessfully to break up a large demonstration of workers demanding higher wages. But two days later Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez said the decree was intended "to defend workers, not to repress them." The government also banned a "Private Enterprise Day" in Managua sponsored by COSEP, the leading business association...
...Geromoni] put it right into the left corner of the goal," Co-Captain Anne Kelly said. "That's the hardest kind to defend...