Word: defender
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Unjust System. But on the crucial question, South Africa's political system, there was not the slightest agreement. Vorster and his delegation had argued that apartheid is not discriminatory and that the homelands will be truly independent. Mondale's public answer: "We cannot accept, let alone defend governments that reject the basic principle of full human rights, economic opportunity and political participation for all their people, regardless of race." To arguments by the South African government that it is keeping the region free of Communism, Mondale replied: "We believe that perpetuating an unjust system is the surest incentive...
Dramatic results are not expected immediately from either of the talks. Still, the gravely important subjects to be discussed at both will help Washington answer a multibillion-dollar question: What does it take to defend America? Facing the Administration in the next year are a series of complicated and costly decisions concerning new weapons systems and force modernization that are likely to determine the military profile of the U.S. through the end of the century. President Carter has said that if it appears "the Soviets are not acting in good faith with us [in the arms talks] and that...
...extremely upset to read Laurie Hays' article entitled "The Revolution Will Not Begin on Class Day." (Crimson, May 4, 1977). I thought sweeping generalizations about the students of the seventies were the exclusive property of Time magazine. I write to defend not only my classmates but also the other students of this decade from Hays' slanderous statement that "this Class Day may mark the beginning of the admitted complacency stage of undergraduate life here at Harvard...
...with the season finale on tap this Thursday afternoon at Dartmouth. Only Yale and Princeton have been able to take the measure of Dave Fish's racquetmen, who, despite their fine showing in the latter's initial season as coach, will thus fall short in their attempt to defend last spring's Eastern League championship...
...difficulties. In the past, an accused criminal wishing to be his own lawyer-to act pro se, in legal terminology-had to convince a judge that he was competent to do the job. But in 1975 the Supreme Court held that the guaranteed right to counsel includes the defendant's right to be his own lawyer. Ruling in Faretta v. California, which concerned a man convicted of auto theft after his plea to defend himself had been denied, the high court said that Anthony Faretta should be retried and given the option of representing himself. Dissenting Justice Harry Blackmun...