Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign affairs, says Moynihan, there is something almost Orwellian about the transformation of the word liberal to mean the opposite of what it meant a decade or so ago. John Kennedy's inaugural address, which declared that the U.S. would defend freedom around the globe, was celebrated at the time. Now liberals oppose intervention...
...defend Patty, the Hearsts brought in the flamboyant Bailey, who could have used a big victory to revive his reputation as one of the shrewdest and most persuasive criminal lawyers in the nation. Opposing Bailey was U.S. Attorney James L. Browning Jr., who said his aim "was to try to neutralize the psychiatric testimony and to try the case basically on the facts" (see box page 24). In acrimonious duels with Bailey, Browning won important victories by getting Judge Carter to admit the tapes from Tania, as well as some of her papers that were confiscated at the Harrises...
...feature of détente, Washington will resist Soviet "adventurism." Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Secretary warned that "exploiting local crises for unilateral gain"?a reference to Kremlin intervention in Angola?"is not acceptable. This nation will not seek confrontations lightly, but we are determined to defend peace by resistance to pressures and irresponsible actions." For starters, the State Department announced that three scheduled Cabinet-level meetings with the Soviets on trade, energy and housing would be postponed indefinitely. Said one senior White House official: "We are indicating that we are not conducting business as usual...
...violence against Algerians in France. In some cases, trade unions have had limited success in attempts to organize the migrants, as in France, while elsewhere, unions have collaborated in racist practices, as in Switzerland. But nowhere has the labor movement been able to organize migrants as migrants, or to defend them effectively from administrative harrassment. To organize a multinational involvement in a national political setting is a difficult task and the European labor movement's failure is hardly surprising. Nevertheless, until the labor movement is able to organize the migrants and to secure political rights for them, workers in western...
Jonathan Beckwith, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the Medical School, said at a forum in the First Unitarian Church that despite the disclaimers of Edward O. Wilson, professor of Zoology, his book "Sociobiology" uses genetics to defend sexism and other discriminating behavior in modern society...