Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play a team game, on a narrow, forested, hilly 20-acre plot several hundred yards long. We split into two seven-man squads, put on our goggles, tied on red or yellow armbands and entered the woods. Our enemy was a quarter-mile away. Gaines and another man would defend our yellow flag. A single freelance scout would head out by himself to do what damage he could, and four of us would range as an attack squad to capture the opposing red flag. I loped off with the attackers, a middle-aged gun-control advocate in a camouflage shirt...
...gossip in Mexico City is the huge, five-house compound that the outgoing President is building for his family on a hill overlooking the capital. Cynics have labeled the complex the "dog hill," a reference "to a Lopez Portillo remark that he would "fight like a dog" to defend the shrinking value of the Mexican peso...
Several area lawyers said that they could use several strategies to defend young men charged with failure to comply. Roberts said most lawyers would plead selective enforcement and violation of First Amendment rights. The Justice Department has cleared only 160 names for indictment, but Selective Service officials estimate that 527,000 young men have failed to register...
...representatives in Port Stanley. Though Thatcher refuses to budge on the issue of British sovereignty, Whitehall hopes that at some future date the Falklands will become a de facto multinational protectorate. But if Thatcher is unsuccessful in obtaining international guarantees for the islands' status, she is prepared to defend them by leaving 3,000 troops and major elements of Britain's naval task force in the South Atlantic...
...national leadership or even avoid nuclear war. On two questions, however, there was a strong public perception of differences between the two parties. Democrats were rated superior in helping the needy poor and older people. Republicans rated much higher than Democrats in "making sure the country is able to defend itself...