Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than a little silly. It got even sillier. With straight-faced pride, the Tribune announced that 43 persons had offered to pay for gift subscriptions to the White House. Reporter Wise, presumably under orders, handed Salinger a contraband copy of the Tribune. But Salinger set it aside unopened, to defend the boss's right not to read any paper he likes. "The First Amendment to the Constitution grants the right of the press to print what it wants," said Salinger solemnly, "and the right of readers to choose what they want to read, and I'm sure that...
...trying to defend the weak...
...GAULLE contends that NATO-which in private he often dismisses as "the American command"-might no longer use its U.S.-controlled nuclear weapons to defend the Continent now that Russia can retaliate directly against the U.S. France must have its own "modest" nuclear deterrent, he argues, in order to "have, whatever happens, our own share in our own destiny." Thus, as he once put it, France could at least "tear an arm" off an aggressor. He announced also that NATO will not get back the two NATO-committed French divisions that were diverted to Algeria. Explained De Gaulle...
...curtly: "When the President tells us to go some place, we go." The marines were in Thailand not only by presidential order but at the invitation of the government of Premier Sarit Thanarat-the first time in 600 years that the Thais have asked foreigners in to help them defend their soil. Said a Thai Cabinet minister: "Persons with old-fashioned ideas may not like having foreign troops in Thailand, but in these times a country has to depend on collective security." Piling into Thai army trucks, the marines sped through streets where saffron-robed Buddhist monks wandered with begging...
Sacrificing the Market. Few businessmen are prepared to defend publicly the increasingly popular U.S. corporate practice of funneling foreign earnings into semifictional subsidiaries in such low-tax areas as Switzerland, Liberia, Panama, Bermuda or the Bahamas. In the single year of 1960, the undistributed earnings of U.S. subsidiaries in such tax havens increased by 100% to $122 million. But businessmen argue that passing the new tax bill to get at the tax havens would amount to rolling out a cannon to kill a mouse. The Government would gain perhaps $85 million a year in tax revenues, but in doing...