Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must face facts today and not close our eyes," Nasser declared. "Today each Arab state is afraid of the others. We are beset by suspicions, contradictions and distrust." This was confession enough, but the bombshell was still to come. Since the Arab states were not strong enough militarily to defend their planned diversion of the headwaters of the Jordan River, declared Nasser, "then I say: let us postpone the diversion. We must provide for Arab defense before we can carry out our ultimate goal and liberate Palestine...
Happily, some U.S. lawyers have never been afraid to defend unpopular people or unpopular causes-even if their efforts cost them dearly in money and community standing. In Birmingham, for example, Lawyer Paul Johnston last week began to pay the price of voluntarily representing FBI Informer Gary Rowe (by indirect request of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach) in a lawsuit filed by Ku Klux Klan Lawyer Matt Murphy Jr. "It's not too popular to be involved in such matters around here," said one lawyer. Johnston was voted out of his eminent law firm by his prosperous partners-including...
Banded together in the area are 45 countries-the Commonwealth and its traditional trading partners-as disparate as Jordan, Iceland, Pakistan, Eire, Ghana and South Africa. They invest most of their own foreign-exchange holdings in British gilt-edged bonds, thus swelling the reserves that Britain can use to defend the pound. When these countries run into deficits in their foreign trade, which happens particularly when commodity prices drop, the situation changes: the sterling area members cash in their bonds and thus pull down Britain's reserves. This is precisely what occurred this year; so far, the sterling nations...
Blasted hardest of all were junkyard owners, who sent their own representatives, tried desperately to defend themselves by defining their roadside eyesores as "a retail automobile-dismantling shop engaged in a business that is neither dishonest nor degrading." Harvard Law School Professor Charles Haar snapped back, "The only way to clean up these places is through strong legislation; voluntary actions on the part of junkyard owners are few and far between...
...came out with a political plea, clearly dictated by Harold Wilson, in favor of West Germany's most popular principle. "In the last 20 years," she said, "the problems facing our two peoples have brought us closer together again. It is now our task to defend civilization in freedom and peace together. That is why we wholeheartedly support your natural wish for peaceful reunification...