Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tanks and mechanized infantry units of two divisions of the First Egyptian Army, normally assigned to defend the regime in Cairo, pummeled the three brigades that Gaddafi managed to throw into battle. Meanwhile nearly a dozen Egyptian commando and paratrooper battalions dropped behind Libyan lines, and three squadrons of MiG fighter jets bombed and strafed Libyan cities and military bases. The fierce armor and air battles raged for at least three days...
Senate backers of the neuts were strongly supported by the military. One Pentagon official said, "NATO is a defense alliance. It won't attack. Any attack will be conducted on friendly territory. We want to deter attack and defend territory without destroying what we want to save." In Belgium, NATO Commander General Alexander Haig Jr. said that America's allies had given the bomb their "enthusiastic support...
...outside Paris. Nine months after construction began in January 1975, Renault decided that the Salon d'Ete would be too expensive to complete and to maintain, and called a halt. Dubuffet, who says the ensemble of sculpture is "the sum of twelve years of work," promptly sued "to defend the right of the artist over his creation"-and lost. Undaunted, he has appealed the case, supported by a group of painters, musicians and writers, including Joan Miró, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen and Eugène Ionesco. Meanwhile, Renault has started to bury the concrete base and central basin...
...tangible along the border between the two Germanies. For more than a generation, elite units of NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, the world's two most powerful war machines, have faced each other across this heavily guarded 836-mile frontier. To signal clearly that it remains determined to defend Western Europe, even in the face of a massive Warsaw Pact arms and troop buildup, the U.S. next year plans to base an additional 3,800-man infantry brigade in West Germany, near Bremerhaven. Meanwhile, crack U.S. units continue to patrol more than half the eastern frontier along with...
Disquieting Result. It may be that the Soviets are miffed as much-or more -by Carter's style as by the substance of U.S. proposals. At a summit meeting with Brezhnev, Carter would probably defend his practice of promoting democracy and human rights, but would point out at the same time that he is not seeking to scuttle U.S.-Soviet detente. Carter said at his press conference that he sought a relationship with Brezhnev "not just to ratify a final agreement but to get to know one another...