Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want bigger subsidies. The President is also struggling to convince two-thirds of the Senate that the Panama Canal treaties should be ratified. A meeting with Panama's Omar Torrijos Herrera successfully clarified differing U.S. and Panamanian interpretations of key treaty provisions-notably the U.S. right to defend the canal...
Because the word intervention is abhor rent to Panamanians, who will be asked to approve the canal pacts in a referendum on Oct. 23, it does not appear at all in the text. Instead, the U.S. right to defend the canal against attack is cloaked in the seemingly ambiguous phrase, "The United States of America and the Republic of Panama agree to maintain the regime of neutrality established in this treaty...
...canal defense provisions should be "interpreted as a right of intervention of the United States in the internal affairs of Panama." On the other hand, the statement also appeared to deal squarely with the Senate's principal concerns. It said flatly that both the U.S. and Panama would "defend the canal against any threat" to its neutrality or to "the peaceful transit of vessels through the canal." In addition, the statement affirmed that U.S. and Panamanian warships not only would use the canal "with expedited treatment" at all times but would also be allowed to "go to the head...
Harvard-Radcliffe's only winning boat in the `76 Head, the victors of the women's four with coxswain race (White Stag Trophy) will return as the top-seeded boat in this year's four event. Becky Goff, Ruth Colker, Cynthia Strong, Karen Oberhauser and cox Diana Shaw will defend the title in this year's boat. Colker is the only returner from last year's winning boat...
Charles J. Ogletree, a third-year Law School student and national chairman of the Black Law Students Association, told workshop participants it would be a mistake to trust the Supreme Court to defend minority rights...