Word: defendents
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Defense. The aim of the Saudis' military program is to build a credible deterrent that would serve notice on any potential aggressor that a move against the country or its oilfields could bring swift retaliation. Their exposed position is obvious: 4,400 miles of difficult-to-defend borders encircled by strategic problems. To the north, two radical neighbors, Syria and Iraq. To the south, Marxist South Yemen, teeming with East bloc advisers. Across the gulf, revolutionary Iran, which regards the Saudi monarchy as corrupt and Saudi society as decadent. To defend itself in this cockpit, the Saudis can deploy...
...came all the way from England, disrupting his sabbatical, to defend the proposed Foundation to improve race relations at Harvard. But when the Rev. Peter J. Gomes rushed off the plane and into the Faculty meeting Tuesday, he discovered a lack of enthusiasm...
...maintenance advisers have already been ordered there. In an obvious attempt to test public opinion, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker remarked after a meeting with Reagan: "It is entirely appropriate for this country to dispatch noncombat advisers in small numbers-50, 100, 150-to tell these people how to defend themselves...
...reaction that counts, of course, will come in Congress, and Administration officials were deep in plans to counter any foot dragging. David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, plans to hold daily press conferences this week, flanked by Cabinet officers who will defend and explain their portion of the spending cuts. White House officials are making themselves available for a blitz of TV appearances, and their Cabinet colleagues are setting up to brief press and special-interest groups...
...surreptitious showmanship. His incarnation of Play wright Shaffer's antagonist, Antonio Salieri, owes much to the offhand technical virtuosity McKellen displayed in that restaurant and even more to an analytic actor's intelligence that is restless and ruth less at once. "If I couldn't defend a performance intellectually, I'd be very un happy indeed," McKellen remarks, and his Salieri is a seamless reconciliation of paradox. It is a portrait in depth of a shallow man, a forgotten 18th century court composer so bedeviled by jealousy, the shock of his own mediocrity and the daunting...