Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 700 people gathered in the Yard to hear a variety of speakers defend Afro-American Studies and call on the University to divest of its South Africa-related investments...
...resolution gave the liberals their basic platform, and marked the Faculty's division into liberal and conservative camps. Although the bust precipitated the split, the caucuses focused on distinct differences in principle and tactics, Hoffmann says. "The conservatives seemed to us to be saying we have to defend authority even if authority was stupid. One conservative insisted on supporting Pusey even though he said to me, 'Pusey is like Louis XVI, except that Louis listened to his advisers.' But the liberals argued nothing good would come of unqualified support. When the president and administration make mistakes there is no reason...
Carefully guarding their lead in the polls, Thatcher's Tories did not begin their official campaigning until this week. The decision to hold back was part of a Conservative strategy to put Labor out front, thereby denying Callaghan the opportunity to attack Thatcher policies by forcing him to defend his own record as Prime Minister for the past three years. There was also fear among Tory tacticians that Thatcher might fall back into her earlier habit of making provocative statements, thus committing a campaign gaffe that could cost the Tories their lead...
...Montreal: "It's impossible to have a united Canada without a strong central government." Dismissing Clark as a "feeble echo" of provincial Premiers who are hungry to expand their powers at Ottawa's expense, Trudeau cast himself as the champion of a government strong enough to defend the national interest from the provinces or anywhere else. Said he, by way of illustration: "The energy needs of Canadians are too vital a matter to be left in the hands of the Exxon Corp. of New York or the provincial government of Alberta...
...General escaped the jail threat, but he hung the gift on his office door. It was still there when Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. faced a contempt threat as a result of a North Carolina civil rights suit. Bell, who would be called on to defend his fellow Cabinet member, forwarded the offering to Califano. "What a hell of a thing," said Joe. "To find that the guy who is going to help you stay out of jail has sent you a hacksaw...