Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have since used troops to evict Chinese squatters from islands in the Amur, and Soviet river boats are periodically fired on by the Chinese. The Chinese have cleared a twelve-mile border strip along the Sinkiang border as a security measure, and pumped in Chinese immigrants to farm -and defend - the territory. Russia is trying to do the same thing in Siberia, hoping to get a long-term economic pact with Japan to develop the Siberian economy...
...against government officials at little or no charge. Although they are instruments of the legislature, they are only generally answerable to it, and have no links with the executive. Their access to official papers is virtually unlimited, permitting them thorough review of administrative actions. One result is that they defend officials as well as citizens and knowledgeably dismiss most complaints as unfounded. Though all seek justice for individuals, their overriding goal is better administration...
...handyman has escaped from an insane asylum and must return. When the stranger pulls a knife, Thompson kills him. The rest of the play shows Thompson, acquitted by a jury, bleakly, desperately dragging his sickly wife (Olivia de Havilland) from one neighbor's house to another to defend himself and his deed. Then he blows his brains...
Most people who defend the subjective legal standards necessary for deciding which books should be banned, argue that the young must be protected from lascivious literature at any cost. But almost all the books which appear in obscenity trials are adult books which adolescents are unlikely to read. It would appear that the moral defenders are actually trying to control the reading habits of adults who should be able to make their own choice...
...persuade and even coerce the underprivileged to practice birth control" as a condition of gaining relief benefits. This, the bishops charged, was an infringement upon "the freedom of spouses to determine the size of their families"-an argument, ironically, that the Planned Parenthood association has always used to defend contraception. The accusation of coercion astounded and outraged officers of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, who insisted that U.S. poverty programs give birth-control advice and assistance only to those...