Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middies should throw a 2-3 set offense at the Crimson defense, and will defend against the Harvard attack with a 1-2-2 zone that may extend into a modified full court zone press. That D will have to contend with an offense that has found a dangerous new weapon in the scoring power of Calvin Dixon, junior point guard extraordinaire...
State Department officials counter that trying to verify the authenticity of the 3 million passport applications made every year would be prohibitively expensive. The officials concede they put more emphasis on the security agents' other duties, but they defend that practice. "Do you provide protection to the ambassador in Beirut, who has been attacked twice, or do you do more passport investigations?" asks Marvin Garrett, acting deputy assistant secretary for security. "We have to have priorities here...
...powerful coalition that has become a formidable political force in Britain, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands. It threatens, if unchecked, to make NATO a useless concept, to strain beyond tolerance the deep but subtle ties that link America with the continent it has twice fought to defend in this bloody century, and to imperil the very ability of the West to stand, free and united, against the encroachments and designs of the Soviet Union...
...while giving the U.S. bargaining strength in any future arms negotiations. Beginning in 1977, Schmidt led the campaign for the Europeans. In so doing, he was trying to ensure that the U.S. would remain faithful to its pledge, made when the alliance was formed in 1949, to defend NATO's European members...
...Soviet missile arsenal grew, Europeans became concerned that the U.S. would not use nuclear weapons to defend the Continent because of a fear that Moscow would respond by attacking American cities. For some of the allies, the uncertainty grew stronger after Washington's 1963 decision to withdraw 90 intermediate-range Jupiter and Thor missiles from Europe on grounds that the weapons were obsolete. Doubts like these led Charles de Gaulle in 1966 to pull France out of NATO's military organization (although not the alliance) and organize its own nuclear retaliatory force, la force defrappe...