Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week the President, deprived of cancer-stricken John Foster Dulles, led the nation between these extremes. He took charge of a three-hour National Security Council meeting, battened down the U.S. determination to fight, if necessary, to defend the Western position in Berlin. He called in congressional leaders of both parties to muster a show of national unity. He tried to restrain U.S. allies from sliding off on tangents, kept up a stern front as Communism's Khrushchev changed pace from "global holocaust" threats to such seeming concessions as an indefinite extension of the May 27 deadline for Berlin...
Garrison State? At his press conference, the President keyed the week to the U.S.'s determination to defend its rights of free access across Communist East Germany to West Berlin-"We could not abandon them; we never would abandon them." Asked about the possibility of "troop withdrawals or disengagement in Central Europe," he ducked a direct answer but stressed that any agreement with the U.S.S.R. in Europe must rest upon "some self-enforcing element . . . so that we can have confidence...
...natural for a nation as it is for the individual. Therefore, if we know we are at any moment under a threat of attack, as would be evidenced by missiles or planes coming in our direction, then we have to act just as rapidly as possible, humanly possible, to defend ourselves." And although the declaration of war is a congressional function, that there could might be "put "certain your life or circumstances the nation's life right at stake. Then there is no time, and whatever would be necessary the President would then order...
...with an answer to the question, the reader also gets Marko's rationalization. "I am not my brother's keeper," he tells Captain Curtis. "I am interested in survival ... I do.not want to become a suburb of Cairo, or Moscow. A Chinese comfort-station ... I want to defend myself ... I want...
Radcliffe and Harvard students are unable to defend the Harvard system of education because the possibility of its being attacked has "never occurred to them," Barbara Collins, Sarah Lawrence '62, declared yesterday...