Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power in international relations. It would not seem to behoove those who pride themselves on their realpolitik to prop up the Royal House of Saud. Or to give Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin further incentive to act intransigently. Or, as a matter of principle, to arrange for others to defend American interests, to trust the kindness of undemocratic regimes while exerting pressure on one of America's few genuine friends...
Opposition has surged, then faltered, then lately surged again. Now the final tally is too close to call. The Reagan Administration appears to have tried everything from crude offers of pork-barrel projects to invocations of biblical Armageddon to defend its proposed sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia. Yet when the Senate votes on the sale this week, conceded Reagan's Senate proconsul, G.O.P Leader Howard Baker, "it may still be lost...
...herself as a waitress. City officials said that Boudin, using the name Adams, had been collecting $355 a month in welfare benefits. William Kunstler, who has represented other radicals, was retained as Boudin's counsel. Said her father, Leonard Boudin, a prominent New York liberal lawyer: "We will defend her as best...
...Poland. The Poles should be allowed to settle their problems by themselves. You have your vital interests, we have our military-political alliances. Much depends on whether the Polish state can defend itself against subversion by reactionary forces both inside and outside the country. We have evidence of ties between external forces and those inside the country that are supporting the struggle against socialism. Poland was, is and will remain socialist. That's all I'm going to say about Poland...
Last week the Sandinistas defended the arrests of the COSEP leaders. Daniel Ortega, a junta member, went on television to claim that the revolution was under grave attack and that the government would first defend the country's workers, farmers and the poor. Said Ortega: "We are at the door of destruction in Nicaragua. We are arriving at a point of no return from which the government of national reconstruction will have difficulty regaining its legitimacy in the eyes of the people...