Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buddhists to burn himself to death in pro test against the Diem government's anti-Buddhist drive. But the Buddhists managed to spirit out of the building the receptacle holding Quang Due's ashes. "The ashes are holy," said one monk. "We would give 15 lives to defend them." Two other monks escaped over the back wall of Xa Loi (pronounced sah loy) into the grounds of the adjoining U.S. Aid Mission, where they were given temporary sanctuary...
...people were imprisoned. In the Buddhist stronghold of Hué, the approach of government troops was signaled by the beating of temple drums and the clashing of cymbals calling for help. Beating pots and pans to rouse their neighbors, the angry populace poured from homes and raced to defend the city's temples. At Tu Dam Pagoda, monks tried to burn the coffin of a priest who had burned himself alive in the Buddhist suicide protest wave. But government soldiers, firing M1 rifles as they advanced, overran the temple, snatched the smoldering coffin away, and smashed a statue...
Reasonable questions, to be sure, but they simply came too late in the day-as did Salazar's offer to Africans of "the closest and most friendly cooperation, if they find it useful." Otherwise, Portugal would defend its territories "to the limit of our resources, if they think fit to turn their threats into acts of war." As for the U.N., which two weeks earlier called anew for curtailment of arms to Portugal, he saw the "massive entry" of Afro-Asian states as having distorted the world organization into a threat to peace. And in a bitter...
...more than its usual care before making a final decision. As of the moment, the Administration has simply not proved that Boston must be the place. For the sake of its own political reputation as well as the good of the space program, the Administration should be required to defend its choice...
...trouble at first appreciating "that I made many people unhappy with my Family Bill?people who were in illegitimate liaisons but who were strongly in love." Pulling herself together, she adds: "But society cannot sacrifice morality and legality for a few wild couples. I have chosen to defend the legitimate family...