Word: defender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington to protest Israel's plans to deport 25 more Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The State Department publicly expressed "shock" and privately warned Israel that "damage to our bilateral relations will occur" if the deportations go ahead. That apparently means that the U.S. will not defend Israel if the expulsions are condemned in the United Nations...
...should the United States be concerned with democracy in Latin America? Maybe because the United States views itself as the world's defender of democracy. Maybe because the United States is the symbol of democracy that many Latin American nations long to be. But when it comes to Latin America, the United States does not defend democracy, it distorts it for its own interests...
...former Premier Son Sann's Khmer People's National Liberation Front), is in dispute. Soviet and Vietnamese military advisers insist that the Kampuchean armed forces can contain the threat, but Western analysts have their doubts. Kampuchea's 30,000-man regular army and the 100,000 irregulars assigned to defend their country are largely untested. Many Kampucheans fear that once the Vietnamese draw down their forces, the Khmer Rouge may succeed in grabbing power once more...
...York Times reported then thatBirenbaum had "denounced the traditional types ofuniversities and colleges as bastions of an elitedetermined to defend its interests andprivileges...
...union letter, which is the latest in an ongoing paper war between the administration and HUCTW, provides the first public discussion of how the union plans to defend itself against University charges that it violated election day guidelines...