Word: defendents
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...NOTEBOOK: Soccer fans may be wondering why defending national champion Cortland State did not receive an at-large bid to the Nationals. Cortland defeated UMass, which received a bid, at the Easterns. According to tournament committee chairman and Colorado College coach Steve Paul, Cortland simply failed to request a bid, a procedure it should have known about from the AIAW Soccer Coaches Manual. Cortland coach Ron Hansen, claiming that Cortland never received any information concerning the tournament bids or even a coaches manual, appealed the tournament committee's exclusion of the Red Dragons from the Nationals on Tuesday...
...reluctant Congress the sale of the 60 F-15 fighters to Saudi Arabia. He did so. with arguments remarkably similar to those that Reagan was to use three years later, chiefly that the U.S. had to increase its influence in the Middle East by helping moderate Arab states to defend themselves. Harold Brown, then Secretary of Defense, had to pledge that Saudi Arabia's F-15s would not be equipped with such offensive gear as range-extending fuel tanks and bomb racks...
...approaching the point where we will be helpless, where we can no longer stand up and defend that friendship. If the U.S. persists in a pro-Israel policy, the only beneficiary will be the Soviet Union. I want to beseech all of you, when you get home, to open the eyes of your officials to the fact that this policy will end in disaster for American interests, for peace and for the free world...
...ranks as members of Solidarity and its rural counterpart; so are 86% of the Polish officer corps. Conscripts tend to serve in the regions where they are drafted, adding further to their identification with local people. Says one Western diplomat in Warsaw: "An army like that is designed to defend the country and not to put down revolts. A third of the army has been drafted since August 1980. Another third was inducted the year before that. Their brothers, fathers and cousins are Solidarity members." Asks he rhetorically: "How much use would those people be against Solidarity...
...defend against the UMass mobilization, Scalise hopes to follow the old adage, "the best defense is offense." "We're not looking to contain their attackers," added the Harvard mentor. "We're looking to pressure them, so they're worried about...