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...Revenge motivated the leaders of the U.S.-based MS, whose initials stand for "Salvatrucha Gang," to order Cortes killed. They blamed him for his failure, while leading the gang inside the penitentiary, to defend his members against an attack by rivals from the 18th Street gang. It had been the worst prison massacre in Honduran history: While the MS slept on the floor of their cramped dormitory, members of the "18" had sneaked in with homemade knives and steel pipes and killed 11 of Cortes's homeboys. The attackers then gutted their victims and triumphantly strung their intestines along...
...graduate of West Point's storied class of '39 (more than 70 of his classmates also became generals), Kerwin famously spoke of the line that he felt must be drawn between those in uniform and those they protect. "The values necessary to defend the society are often at odds with the values of the society itself," he said. "The Army must concentrate not on the values of our liberal society but on the hard values of the battlefield...
Singh put his Congress Party's majority on the line to defend his government's decision to pursue a controversial nuclear deal with the United States. The two main leftist parties pulled out of Singh's coalition government in protest against the deal, which they said would make India beholden to the strategic interests of the U.S. Singh kept his majority by forging a series of alliances, first with the Samajwadi Party, a powerful player in the key northern state of Uttar Pradesh, and then with a series of smaller regional parties. "They ayes have it," said Somnath Chatterjee...
...learn in school to defend the national colors, be it in soccer or in Scrabble, and we take that very seriously." He is very confident of his country's chances this time. "If we keep up our game, we stand a 90% chance of winning again...
...protect silos, is that they are now vulnerable to a pre-emptive attack by the Soviets' vast arsenal of fast, accurate warheads. At the conference, Walter Slocombe, who during the Carter Administration held a Pentagon post comparable to the one now occupied by Perle, agreed that ''in principle'' defending silos is ''not a bad idea.'' But, he argued, there are cheaper and more reliable ways to defend the U.S. capability to retaliate. Among those suggested at the conference: hardening missile silos and developing a system of mobile missiles that would be less vulnerable to attack. If protecting silos...