Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncontrollable triple-digit inflation. Finance Minister Simha Ehrlich proposed a stringent plan to reduce inflation by 1981 to 40%, at best, by slashing $1.5 billion in government spending, including $650 million from the defense budget. At that, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who has been seeking a 40% increase to defend the narrower peacetime borders, angrily bolted from the Cabinet meeting. Opposition leaders demanded that Ehrlich resign, and Begin was forced to postpone the ministerial vote on the plan. Nor was that all. At week's end the mercurial Weizman also rapped Begin's proposed plan for Palestinian autonomy...
...wake of our Vietnam experience it can certainly be argued that these commitments are not appropriate. Perhaps we should not defend these countries or retain any military capability to intervene outside the industrial West. This is a major change, however, with profound implications for our Allies, for our energy policy and for our self image. It is in this light--as a change in our foreign policy--that the recommendations of BSG should be regarded...
...country," the former two-term congressman and head of the first U.S. liaison office in China said. "We are the only credible defense to the Soviet Union. We should act like the United States of America," he added during a brief speech in which he stressed U.S. responsibility to defend international freedom...
...other function-covert actions-is much more controversial because of past efforts to "destabilize" certain governments perceived to be inimical to the U.S. Yet covert actions have generally been more modest in scope and supportive of friendly, usually democratic nations and political parties. Few CIA officials, past or present, defend the large-scale paramilitary operations that led to disaster in Cuba and to considerable controversy, at least, in Laos. "Our mission was much inflated," says Jack Maury. "Covert operations can support but not substitute for overt policies. You are not going to change the course of history by cloak...
...woman from the Combahee River Collective, a black feminist group, called for the women at the rally to defend themselves and to tell their friends to do the same. "We don't have to fight this battle in ones and tens, but in thousands and tens of thousands. We will fight back!" the spokesman, who also asked to remain unidentified, said...