Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack, 2) draft a new program of economic aid for the Middle East to build up its stability and anti-Communist potential. Congress will almost certainly approve the Eisenhower plan, and probably by joint resolution-just as it approved, and thus strengthened, the President's 1955 decision to defend Formosa by force, if necessary...
...based on the use of tactical atomic weapons behind a thin "plateglass" shield of infantry, and put the new target at 30 divisions. The plate glass was getting thinner all the time. Last week NATO could field only 15 "shield" divisions, of which five were U.S., four British, to defend the line from the Alps to the Baltic...
...itself against the threat of Russia. Ever since then, he has been in the forefront of every effort toward European unity, impatient at "lip service" and "halfway measures toward that end as he has been active and ardent in support of practical progress." "To believe that we can still defend our selves, by ourselves," he told the Belgians last year, in support of NATO "is completely absurd." And he added: "For me, NATO must also be the political center of the West." Speaking in Moscow at the time of the Suez invasion and the Russian intervention in Hungary, he came...
Shoemaker told a University of Illinois seminar for political reporters that the South's 38 biggest dailies (all but a dozen of which editorially defend segregation) are now playing desegregation stories "straight down the line," seem less inclined to emphasize news that depicts the Negro in a bad light. Said Shoemaker: "The feeling at first was that any news treatment of the problem would be resented by readers, because it was such a highly touchy subject. Now newspapers have found readers don't resent it, and use their own staffs to cover the problem instead of relying...
Jordan (pop. 1,500,000), a precarious sandtrap, is currently host to a Syrian brigade and an Iraqi brigade, nominally there to help defend it against Israel, but ready to pick up the pieces if Jordan itself flies apart. New Premier Suleiman Nabulsi, echoing the demands of the Nasserites in his Parliament, last week demanded the stopping of Britain's $33 million annual subsidy, but significantly qualified his demand by waiting to see whether his Arab neighbors would make up the difference to keep his country going. One of the few remaining benefits London gets for its Jordanian subsidy...