Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote, the Senate Appropriations Committee gave its approval to a $93 million aid package after President Reagan lobbied personally for the bill. At a White House lunch for Republican women officeholders, Reagan argued last week that without the aid money, "El Salvador cannot hold secure elections or defend" itself against the guerrillas...
...Justice Department defends its intervention as consistent and evenhanded. "We always side with people who claim they have suffered discrimination on account of race," says Civil Rights Chief William Bradford Reynolds. Indeed, the Birmingham case is not the first time the department has sided with white employees attacking affirmative-action programs. It has joined "reverse discrimination" suits in Boston, New Orleans and Detroit as well. Hiring quotas are among several "race-conscious" remedies that the Reaganauts have tried to abandon. Others include mandatory school busing and denying tax exemptions to segregated schools. Last week, for instance, the department asked...
...Iraqi forces east of the Tigris River: "If a superpower threatened the U.S., what would it do? We too have our dignity and honor. We are not going to meet the invader with flowers and perfume. We are going to use all available means at our disposal to defend the nation." Major General Maher Abed al Rashid, whose Iraqi Third Corps is fighting in the area around Basra, insisted that there were no such weapons within his command. He pointed out that poison gas would be extremely difficult to use in a close-combat situation. But he added...
...cases, according to the Libel Defense Resource Center, but in the past three years journalists have lost 83% of initial jury trials, and in 22 cases the damage award was more than $1 million. Even when awards are reversed on appeal, cases sometimes cost more than $1 million to defend. Indeed, journalists contend that many libel cases are filed in part to harass the press, and some publishers have urged adoption of Britain's system of making the loser in a suit pay the winner's legal fees...
...halving of U.S. troops would be a disaster, they said, because it would cast doubt on U.S. readiness to defend Europe...