Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a member of the Ku Klux Klan for two years. (The reporter won a Pulitzer Prize for his revelation.) Like some other Southern politicians, Black had joined the Klan to further his career. But, he explained, he had no sympathy for its aims. He went on radio to defend his record on civil liberties-and has never again referred to the Klan episode publicly...
...Holdouts. For most investors, Rhodesian and foreign alike, all this makes Central Africa seem a bad risk. But one important group is holding out against the tide of pessimism: the three great companies that dominate the Copper Belt and have a stake of $850 million to defend in Northern Rhodesia...
Spain's conservative and puritanical pri mate. Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, 84. Archbishop of Toledo, has vigorously stepped in to defend H.O.A.C.; after Franco lashed out at "some exalted priests" for stirring up trouble in Asturias, Cardinal Pla y Deniel allowed his church officials to discipline the erring priests, but neglected to condemn their activities...
Condemned Unheard. The National Assembly considered itself deeply insulted when Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville made an appearance to defend De Gaulle's concept of a Europe consist ing of federated but sovereign states, and stipulated that the plan could only be debated, not voted upon. All ten Communist Deputies flatly refused to attend the session. More than half of the Deputies - Socialists, Radicals, Popular Republicans, Independents - walked out en masse. Left facing empty benches, except for Gaullist Deputies, Couve de Murville complained, "We were condemned before we could be heard." Later, 293 of the 550 members...
...this great man." writes Nigg. "we would have to call him the aurora borealis shining in the night of early medieval Christendom." Arms, Not Argument. In dealing with its heretics. Nigg argues, the church too often substituted force of arms for force of argument. Perhaps the first theologian to defend strong-arm methods was St. Augustine. In one debate with some 5th century heretics, he lost his temper, abandoned his arguments from Scripture and announced the terrible principle: Cogite intrare-compel them to enter. It was a fateful surrender to weakness that later Christians found most useful. In the 13th...