Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Navy refuses to comment on the nature of the dolphins' tasks, private sources claim the dolphins defend moored nuclear submarines by identifying and killing saboteur-divers. Others are reportedly trained to locate mines (one dolphin died during recent naval operations in the Persian Gulf). Apparently, the CIA has even approached former trainers from the hit 1960s TV show, "Flipper," asking them to train dolphins to place explosives on ships...
...years, teachers have been one of the most conservative elements of Soviet society, barking orders like drill sergeants and demanding ready obedience. In many schools, parents are called in for collective meetings, where they hear their children denounced before other adults. Any mother or father who tries to defend his child does so at the risk of seeing him later punished by his teacher. Boyko agreed that many teachers are not prepared for reform. "They don't have the strength to change, or they think the old ways are just fine," she said...
...receiving the scholarship) is generally true for me, but for a reason far different than any he mentions. If Harvard did not have a ROTC program, I would have attended the Naval Academy. I am not in the program for the money but for the opportunity to serve and defend my country. I understand that not everyone believes that the military is the right means for such an end, and many here at Harvard see such attitudes as loyalty and patriotism as hackneyed, but I do not feel that they should have the right to discriminate against...
...They sang radical songs, received wet pieces of linen and instructions for their use against tear gas, and the phone numbers of lawyers who had agreed to defend those arrested...
...receiving the scholarship) is generally true for me, but for a reason far different than any he mentions. If Harvard did not have a ROTC program I would have attended the Naval Academy. I am not in the program for the money, but for the opportunity to serve and defend my country...