Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about a philosophy that advocates use of U.S. power only when the nation requesting our assistance can clearly demonstrate its own solid commitment to fight for the right to exist and to be free? If the South Vietnamese showed the kind of determination and willingness to defend their country that the Israelis have shown in the current crisis, it would be easier to convince the doves that the Viet Nam war is worth a heavy U.S. military commitment. But then, a dedicated and motivated South Vietnamese people could have won its war a long time ago-without American help...
...much of the Harvard community, the war no longer poses an intellectual problem in American foreign relations. As one former member of the Johnson Administration put it a few days ago. "I haven't found anybody up here in quite a while who will defend the Administration's policy right down the line." This mounting "dovishness" puts partisan Democrats in a tenuous position; the national leader of their party will be in a tight election next vear, but should he defeat his Republican opponent, he might interpret his victory as a mandate for his present Vietnam policy...
...incredibly audacious thing that a few million people in South Viet Nam-and we Americans-are trying to do, is to defend not so much a nation as the possibility that South Viet Nam can become a nation. It's a very tough proposition. We may fail. If so I hope that I, as one who has supported the policy, will be prompt to admit that we had attempted something beyond our powers. But you know, we may just succeed. And if that happens, I hope that the many thoughtful, dedicated Americans who opposed the policy will be glad...
...What is essential is "the sense of common identity, the sense of a singularly important national 'we' which is distinguished from all others who make up an alien 'they.' " In the long jostling of history, a group would stake out a territory and fight to defend its boundaries against any "theys." In short, a nation becomes a state when it has the power to occupy and hold a given amount of space and when other nations recognize this fact. This may not seem just or fair. It may smack too much of raw force and various...
...course, last week's races were merely warmups, and the 12-meter yacht that will defend the 116-year-old America's Cup against Australia's Dame Pattie will not be picked until the final trials in August. So Mosbacher's mistake might soon be forgotten-were it not for the possibility that the loss could be the only one Intrepid will ever suffer. Skeptics who considered how Architect Olin Stephens could improve his design for Constellation-the boat that beat Eagle in the 1964 U.S. trials, then went on to wipe up Britain...