Word: defended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temporary acceptance of evil" does not mean that we must honor the architects of evil acts, particularly when they continue to defend the propriety of their actions. Whether or not the Japanese-Americans' relocation was motivated by war hysteria, and whether or not McCloy commuted the sentences of war criminals because of fear of communism, McCloy demonstrated far more concern for the entitlements of convicted war criminals than for the rights and lives of innocent Japanese-Americans and Jews...
...spread among the different types of residence, there is the contrasting sense of a large community split into many smaller isolated groups, especially among minorities. "You can live here a year and never meet anyone from the floor above," complains one Superblock resident, although most students will quickly defend the openness and friendly atmosphere...
...with no sophisticated intermediate-range missile on the Continent. For nations such as West Germany and Italy, which have no independent nuclear forces, this would raise the troublesome question of whether the U.S. would fire its nuclear weapons, thereby risking retaliation against its own cities, in order to defend Western Europe. Says Friedrich Ruth, the West German Foreign Ministry's senior arms negotiations expert: "If the Soviet demand were met, the Soviet monopoly over European intermediate nuclear forces would be complete. And that would make a dramatic change...
Stern Editor Koch, who flew to the U.S. to defend the Hitler diaries' authenticity, waved aside all objections to what he called "the journalistic scoop of the post-World War II period." But he admitted that his magazine had relied for verification almost entirely on the assertions of Reporter Gerd Heidemann, 51, a 31-year veteran of Stern who claims he uncovered the diaries after a four-year search through East and West Germany, Spain and South America...
...Harvard lightweight crew, meanwhile, did not compete this weekend but is slated to defend its 1982 Eastern Sprints title in Worcester Sunday...