Word: defender
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...security forces risked setting off a Palestinian civil war, arresting 112 followers of Hamas and Islamic Jihad today to retaliate forsuicide bombingsthat killed seven Israelis and an American college student Sunday. Militant Islamic leaders threatened resistance against Arafat's government: "If he (Arafat) practices this behavior, we will defend ourselves by all means," warned Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader. The bombings, near Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, injured more than 40 people. Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old junior at Brandeis University on vacation for Passover, died today of her wounds. Arafat's police chief, meanwhile, said the militant...
...fact is that there was an 80 percent voteamong graduate students to be recognized as aunion," Weinbaum added. "In a university thattalks about democracy and freedom of associationand Lux et Veritas, they're the ones whohave to defend why they won't recognize a group intheir own community...
...firm on the issue and give nothing back. One may not agree with them, but their arguments are at least understandable. Suppose you are a patriotic Russian in your 60s. Your childhood was passed amid the horrors and suffering of the Great Patriotic War, in which millions died to defend the Motherland against Nazism. Then you survived Stalin, watched the utopian fantasies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat go into sclerosis in the 1960s and '70s, and saw the imperium collapse in the '80s. Today the yellow arches of McDonald's shed their plastic gleam on Red Square, and gangsterism...
President Clinton will watch his hometownRazorbacks defend their NCAA men's basketball crownagainst UCLA on TV tonight, gathering with a few old friends at a favorite restaurant in Little Rock...
...pack one's own handgun. Says Gary Huttenhoff, a real estate appraiser who has just picked up his laminated wallet-size permit from Sheriff Anderson's office in El Paso County: "The police take care of the public, not the individual. This is a great chance for people to defend themselves." One of the most potent advocates in the Texas debate has been Suzanna Gratia, who watched helplessly as a deranged gunman executed 23 people--including her parents--at a cafeteria in the town of Killeen four years ago. At the time, Gratia's own .38-cal. was lying...