Word: defenders
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None of this thinking is particularly new to the theological academies, but many Anglicans were shocked that it should come from a bishop sworn to defend the church against heresy. "It is not every day," grumbled the Church Times, "that a bishop goes on public record as apparently denying almost every Christian doctrine of the church in which he holds office." The Manchester Guardian called it a "dangerous tract," suitable only for theologians to read, and in a front-page editorial, London's Daily Mail wondered "whether he should continue as a bishop...
Alphand said that the recent talks between U.S. Secretary of State Rusk and French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville "do not signify a change in the French mood." Both Parliament and the people are "strongly behind President de Gaulle's ambition that France have its own means to defend itself," he stated...
...force France will also insure greater protection for itself, he said. "In the next 15 years there may come a time when there is a threat mostly against France. In such a situation the U.S. may not want to sacrifice millions by entering a war just to defend France...
...necessary, to lie to save itself." But in three hours of testimony, Sylvester seemed to satisfy his congressional inquisitors that his was simply "a brutal answer to a rather brutal question" at a "freewheeling" dinner held by the journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi. Next, he was asked to defend himself against the now familiar suggestion that he ought to resign from the Defense Department on the ground that he has "damaged his usefulness...
...three days, cruising almost anywhere on earth. One proposal is to arm these loitering ships with low-flying missiles capable of streaking to their targets under the searching beams of enemy radars. The mere existence of such deadly platforms would force an enemy into costly efforts to defend against them...