Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feloney's objections to issue 18 were directed at a "obscene" letter printed at the top of page seven among the paper's classified ads. Both Crampton, chairman of the board for Avatar, and editor Wayne M. Hansen, who received one of the $300 fines, took the stand to defend the letter and the rest of Avatar's contents...
...whole tradition of free thought and free expression here. There are strong moral issues at stake in the Vietnamese war--legality and honesty and humanity, for example. These have been bludgeoned by the corporations and the generals and the government. It is the University's duty to defend these moral principles. If it does not, it lives in hypocrisy. How can we refuse to act against a war that molds minds, that lies, that fits expediencies into Fords and CadillacsThe great casuality of this war will be Harvard University, and it will be hurt because of its own blind stupidity...
...assume so much, worry so much, react so violently so far from our shores, when other nations play it cool? We must remain strong and be prepared to defend and help the peoples of this hemisphere. We will find this and our own internal problems sufficient to mark the limits of our power...
...look for Khesanh offers limited encouragement, but the prospects for long-term avoidance of nukes in Vietnam are slim. General Wheeler said two weeks ago that he "doesn't think nuclear weapons will be necessary to defend Khesanh"; but implicit in that statement is the rationale that somewhere else the military might consider them necessary. And if the battle of Khesanh does not end the war, experts see two ways that the "necessary" time could come...
...response will be. Here is where the people in Saigon began wondering: If Khe Sanh falls, if another city or two is badly struck, if there are civilian uprisings--which I would not be surprised to see in the next few months because of what we are doing to defend the cities now--if this did happen, what would the response of the United States be? If Thieu and Ky fall, as Professor Galbraith suggests, what...