Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unite by Force. Even nations that have no plausible hope of making accommodations with the Communists are reassessing their positions. Taiwan's Premier Chiang Ching-kuo has said that Taiwan must be ready to defend itself by its own efforts. For South Korean President Park Chung Hee, the moral of Viet Nam is that "in the end, you count on nobody but yourself." Park's nightmare is that North Korean President Kim Il Sung may be so influenced by Hanoi's triumphs that he will attack the South and try to reunite Korea by force...
...come all the way from Philadelphia to plead my innocence in this case. I am an attorney and will defend myself," said the distinguished gentleman to Indianapolis Magistrate Phillip Bayt. Few motorists travel 600 miles to fight a speeding ticket (82 m.p.h. in a 55 m.p.h. zone), but veteran Presidential Candidate Harold Stassen, 68, assured skeptical court officials that he had no other business in Indianapolis. With Stassen's arresting officer ill and unable to testify, the judge dismissed all charges, and the five-time Republican loser went home with a victory at last...
...ceremonious appearance at South Viet Nam's National Assembly. Speaking in halting gasps, wearing dark glasses, he told the legislators that it was for them to decide if he should stay in office or make way for General Minh. "Now our ally has abandoned us and we have to defend our fatherland alone," he warned, "but by doing that Saigon may become a sea of fire and a mound of bones. I wish to avoid this...
...hears that we must maintain a huge and powerful military in order to defend the free world. I agree. I only wonder about the company we keep in this free world. Does it include Franco? President Park of South Korea? President Thieu? The military junta in Chile? Or Brazil? Does it include the recent military leaders of Greece to whom we gave millions of dollars in military...
...your Essay "The U.S. Cannot Live in Isolation" [April 7], you say that "not only must the U.S. be able to defend itself but it must have a world-or at least some regions of the world-congenial to its system and its goals...