Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holly Idelson tried to be fair in allowing Timothy Keating to defend the recent Pi Eta newsletter. Mr. Keating's apology of the infamous letter is, however, totally inadequate. First of all, saying that this was a private publication does not excuse the fact that it had plenty of rapist remarks...
...congressional praise was the hope that the impressive though imperfect Salvadoran display would rally Senate support for a compromise package of $62 million worth of proposed emergency military aid for El Salvador. Without the funds, insisted Reagan, the 30,000-member Salvadoran army would soon be unable to defend the country against the guerrillas, whose unity is sometimes debatable but whose destructiveness is beyond dispute (see box). The Senate gave tentative approval to the aid, but, chiefly through the efforts of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, a promised formal vote on the funds was delayed until this week...
...little" war that everyone knew was senseless and avoidable also contains the ingredients for a much larger conflict. Last and first, the Falklands war was caused by the original miscalculation on the part of the Argentinian military junta that a Western democracy was too soft, too decadent to defend itself. This delusion on the part of undemocratic governments has been, and remains, the greatest danger to peace in this century. The cacophonous self-criticism of the democracies and the unwavering insistence of their people that peace must be the paramount goal of their elected governments are signs of great strength...
...They had a blind spot," says Reichert. "Unfortunately they bought into a model without questioning it. It became their first principle to defend that country." So much so that they didn't believe reports of the Stalin purges. When the Stalin revelations became news in 1956 many of the communists became so disillusioned that they dropped out of the party. They grew more concerned with democracy. It was an ideal that many would have never dreamed of giving...
...opinion is shared by many local citizens. Asserts Hank Greenspun, the publisher of the Las Vegas Sun: "If you're a Nevadan, you're guilty until proved innocent." Federal investigators adamantly defend their actions. Nevada, says retired FBI Agent Joseph Yablonsky, u who headed the Claiborne probe, has too long operated like "a foreign protectorate ... We've had to plant the American flag in the desert...