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Ironically, another drawback may have been the strong ideological and party link Pratt shares with Gov. Toney Anaya, one of the nation's most liberal. Since he took over in 1982, Anaya has had to defend himself against a host of criticisms from the public and state legislators--ranging from his taking too active a role in national Hispanic politics at the expense of getting things done at home, to his refusal to enforce the death penalty. Some observers believe the governor is proving an albatross around Pratt's neck...
Mondale had some difficulty defending his own proposal for a nuclear freeze. He stressed over and over again that he would negotiate no agreement that could not be verified, but failed to explain how a compliance with a freeze could be assured. Reagan, attempting to defend himself against the Democrat's complaints that he had not only failed to negotiate any arms-control agreements but had not even met with a top leader of the U.S.S.R. until his session with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in September, said that it was the Soviets who had walked out of nuclear-weapons...
...sailors will now vacation until late February, when they will travel to Charleston, S.C. to defend a title they won there a year...
Sometimes the exchanges between Allied governments become rancorous. Churchill believes that Britain's military intervention in favor of the Greek monarchy in 1944 is the only way to stop a takeover by Communist guerrillas. Washington is skeptical. "We have been set upon, and we intend to defend ourselves," Churchill writes angrily to Hopkins. "I consider we have a right to the President's support... It grieves me very much to see signs of our drifting apart at the time when unity becomes even more important, as danger recedes and faction arises." Roosevelt suavely answers that...
...universally" that Britain is to blame for "unwillingness ... to concede to the Indians the right of self-government." Churchill passionately answers that "anything like a serious difference between you and me would break my heart," but he declares just as passionately that Britain will do what it must "to defend this vast mass of helpless Indians...