Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Joe Restic, who hates having to defend his offense as much as the Atlanta Falcons hate to use theirs, said after the game that "This just shows how important a pre-season scrimmage is. We didn't have one, except between ourselves, and you just can't gauge your talent that...
...disagreements with an American Administration, the Israelis could always count on considerable backing from the politically powerful U.S. Jewish community. American Zionist leaders had already been told by Begin's aides that after Camp David, they "might be called upon" to undertake a "massive" public relations campaign to defend Israel's position. But even with such backing inside...
Martin insists there was no impropriety in his obtaining the papers or keeping them. He claims that a number of people, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, knew that he had them. Some federal officials speculate that Martin retained the documents just in case he had to defend his Saigon performance against critics...
Their job is to reoccupy and defend a former French outpost called Muc Wa, which they do successfully until there is an inexplicable change in strategy and they are forced to withdraw into ambush and massacre. The picture is good at catching the absurdity and futility of the operation, but in the long siege-and-retreat sequence, Director Post's failure to rise above simple realism becomes a problem. The scenes here should be spookier and more suspenseful, imparting a developing sense of the madness of isolation in an alien land where the native enemy has all the advantages...
...wants the CENTO charter rewritten so that Pakistan could call for alliance help if threatened by an "indirect" Soviet attack. Washington interprets this as an unwarranted commitment to defend Zia in the event of another Indo-Pakistani war, and will have none of it. In response, the Pakistanis talk about the advantages of withdrawing from CENTO and joining the nonaligned movement. Says Zia: "CENTO is becoming a hindrance to Pakistan's security." Besides, he adds, "in the current day, it's better to be nonaligned than aligned. Look at India and Afghanistan. Both under the Soviet Union, yet they...