Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feathers grow again. What might be a start appeared last week in some fairly strong talk about how the U.S. would defend islands in Formosa Strait...
...Navy has a four-year-old standing order to defend the Pescadores as well as Formosa. This was emphasized last week by U.S. spokesmen, in answer to continued Chinese Communist threats to invade Formosa (TIME, Aug. 30). At his press conference Secretary Dulles mentioned the Pescadores in such away as to make clear that they are an integral part of the Formosa defense system. Dulles also mentioned-but did not name-other islands that might require defending as part of the defense of Formosa...
...question remained: Which Nationalist-held islands, other than Formosa and the Pescadores, would the U.S. defend? Washington did not say. It was assumed that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were deciding that right now; in order to keep the Reds guessing, they might not make their decisions public...
...know it only remotely through a haze of symbols-Terry and the Pirates, The Road to Mandalay, Errol Flynn striding triumphant down the Burma Road. By the light of the flames that roared up over Indo-China, the dark and distant land of Burma has become visible. Can Burma defend its 1,000-mile Red China frontier by itself? Can Burma be saved? Will it get help-or accept...
Countercampaign. Normally, the matter would have ended right there, but the issue of the punishment was, by now, thoroughly entangled in the effort to defend tradition. Most of the suspended students came from distinguished families, and the families hired distinguished lawyers to carry on the fight. Meanwhile, a group of students led by newly elected Student Council President William L. Tazewell began a countercampaign to get Fletcher fired from his job of student director. At semester's end Tazewell reported to his council: "A majority of the student body have neither faith . . . nor trust in ... the administration...