Word: defender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radio Hanoi said, however, that Cambodian government troops continued to defend some areas against Vietnamese forces and the pro-Hanoi Cambodian rebels...
...President Bok's office announces that Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada will be this year's Commencement speaker. "We know we'll take a lot of heat for this," an unnamed Corporation official states, "but Idi was the only black African leader we could get to defend our investments policy...
Directors and television producers are always quick to defend all this by saying that they simply produce what the American people want. But they are also teaching a lot of people how things were. A strange cycle develops, with fond memories becoming part of the collective memory of an era, until all that is left of such an era are these one-sided memories. It's rather sad to watch movies in which present day movie stars yearn for the good old days, when "the movies really meant something." It is the same sadness you get when you hear...
...Carter, the convention's chief value was the opportunity that it gave him to explain, promote and in some cases defend his policies. Particularly crucial for the President is winning Democrats' support for the unpopular spending cuts he feels must be made in the 1980 budget to help control inflation. "We will balance those sacrifices fairly," he promised. "If we err in this balance, it will be on the side of those who are most in need...
...boycott, partly broken in the last two years, has continued since 1971 because of constant disagreement between students and faculty members over the interpretation of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, which set up the CRR to defend what it called "the rights of members of the University...