Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greatest Love. One after another, Negro leaders began standing up to defend Powell, who faces a jail term for evading a defamation judgment. He is also being investigated by a House subcommittee looking into irregularities in the spending of the Education and Labor Committee, of which he is chairman. Powell's defenders served notice that they would battle any move to challenge his seating in Congress or otherwise censure...
...Manhattan, some 200 civil rights leaders turned out for a defend-Powell meeting in the Harlem headquarters of A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. "We view with alarm and disbelief," said Randolph, "the attempt by a small and vindictive clique in the House to unseat the Representative from Harlem." Randolph assured the session that he had talked by phone with Powell, who was still vacationing in his Bahamian island retreat, and that Adam had sent "his greatest love" to all in attendance. Cried Livingston Wingate, onetime Powell aide and former director of HARYOUACT...
...bombs on targets." So far, those targets have not included MIG airfields themselves, since Washington does not yet consider them worth the risk of enlarging the war. But if air opposition reached the point where U.S. planes were constantly forced to jettison their bombloads in order to defend themselves before reaching their targets, then the Air Force would be all for a shift in tactics-if the White House permitted it. "The MIGs," says one high-ranking Air Force officer in Washington, "would have to be taken out either in the air-or on the ground...
Compromise Judgment. The prosecutor did not have everything his way. Both defendants were represented by Soviet attorneys, who seemed not at all embarrassed at having to defend Americans. Wortham's counsel produced character affidavits from everyone from the mayor of North Little Rock to Congressman Wilbur Mills, told the court that "Wortham is not a person of such social danger as the prosecutor represented," asked for a token sentence of three months...
With the added electives, humanities courses now account for nearly half the Point's curriculum. The reason, says Lieut. Colonel Wilfred Burton, who teaches English, is that the Army exists to defend freedom and "preserve the dignity of man," but to do that, its officers must first "know the nature of man." Burton exposes students to such contemporary writers as W. H. Auden and Edward Albee, plays devil's advocate by roaring at his classes: "Army officers are just machines, aren't they? If they're told to go out and massacre the innocents, they...