Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Berlinguer, Andreotti also moved swiftly to defend his deal. Christian Democratic spokesmen insisted that the arrangement with the Communists was indeed temporary and not "organic." Said the Christian Democratic newspaper ll Popolo: "The basic differences between the parties are certainly not canceled...
...Mozambique, Mugabe's main base of operations. Nkomo last week denied that he had invited Cuban advisers to join his Zambian-based guerrillas. But his strong supporter, Zambia's moderately pro-Western President Kenneth Kaunda, has threatened that he might request Soviet and Cuban aid to defend his country from Rhodesian attacks. On the other hand, TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood reported, a Soviet diplomat in Lusaka, Zambia's capital, argues that a Cuban intervention is unlikely, since it would almost certainly provoke South African reinforcement of Smith's forces...
Carter's-plan does have a growing body of support. Ready to defend it are the Chamber of Commerce, Common Cause and Ralph Nader's consumer constituency. The plan will surely be popular with the public, which has grown resentful of a bureaucracy that produces less while earning more money for itself. Inertia was perhaps tolerable when federal pay was not competitive with the private sector, but that is no longer the case. Secretaries, stenographers, keypunch operators and other clerical employees for the Government often earn more than similar workers in private industry. Average hourly wages...
Europeans are so eager for America to defend the dollar, Triffin argues, that they would willingly make the additional loans. Indeed, he believes that in return for propping the dollar, America could extract a quid pro quo, notably persuading the reluctant West Germans and Japanese to expand their economies in order to enhance world recovery. "It is in the interest of all governments to intervene to lift the dollar," Triffin says persuasively. "The problem simply cannot be left to the tender mercies of the speculators...
...response to Avital Shcharansky's plea, Alan Dershowitz, professor of Law, said yesterday he and Rep. Robert Drinan (D-Mass) will send an offer of assistance to Silvia Dubrovskaya, the lawyer the Soviet government has appointed to defend Anatoly Shcharansky...