Word: defender
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...apparently included these facts in the story and proposed the headline, "Dershowitz Denies Representing Karadzic" But the story did not end up appearing that way. It ended up with the following headline: "Dershowitz May Defend Serb Leader Karadzic." Nor did it include the important fact that I had not spoken to Karadzic for over a year...
...Central and East European states face no military threat; so to them, the whole thing looks risk-free. But if in a few years Poland gets into a scrape with Ukraine, say, or Hungary with Romania, would the U.S. be willing to send American forces or nuclear weapons to defend the new allies? Such spats will never happen, say the proponents...
...officials from Boris Yeltsin on down swear they absolutely, positively will not tolerate Baltic membership in the Atlantic alliance. This stage, two or three years from now, could mean a return to some form of East-West cold war. And since nuclear weapons are the only way NATO could defend the Baltic states against a threat from Russia, it could also mean a return to the terrible days when thermonuclear missile forces confronted each other across European borders. The dream of a generation could turn out to be a recurring nightmare, and the Senate voted...
Dershowitz said he has thus far declined to defend Karadzic, who remains at large following two indictments by a United Nations (U.N.) war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...
...takes an agile mind to defend drunk driving and kids' smoking. Take the modest proposal to set the drunk-driving threshold at .08 blood-alcohol content nationwide--stricter than the .10 standard in 34 states. The liquor lobby long played on the fear that .08 would mean social drinkers who've had a few after work would all fail the Breathalizer. But research shows you can drink yourself silly before reaching .08: a 170-lb. man can guzzle four martinis inside an hour on an empty stomach before he gets there. He may not be sloppy drunk, but who wants...