Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lawyers for the N.A.A.C.P. quickly secured a federal court order summoning Governor Davis to defend his action in a hearing this week. Just as quickly, the Governor decided to go catfishing, well out of subpoena range. Unable to track him down, U.S. deputy marshals lamely delivered three summonses: two left at Davis' office and one dropped at the feet of a state trooper who answered the door at the Governor's mansion...
...broad and coordinated program of Antarctic research. In May 1958, President Eisenhower invited them all to Washington to discuss a continuing joint policy for Antarctica. This, he argued, "could have the additional advantage of preventing unnecessary and undesirable political rivalries in that continent, the uneconomic expenditure of funds to defend individual national inter ests, and the recurrent possibility of international misunderstanding.'' After an amicable seven-week conference, all twelve nations signed an Antarctic treaty, and last week the U.S. Senate ratified...
...straits, could not help but share in the general fury that Belgium had been "deserted" in the Security Council by its NATO allies, Britain and the U.S. Huffily echoing his party's bitter charge that Washington and London "refuse our soldiers the right to defend the lives and security of our compatriots," Eyskens said Belgium would have to consider reducing its military contributions to NATO...
...defend this thesis. Martin digs into history, suggests that "strong" Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt were all only nominal Christians. Even Lincoln, says Martin, was a practical politician who "drew a line of separation between his personal ethics and the ethics of responsibility...
...other teen-ager are left alive. When a truckload of German troops arrives, the boys think they are replacements to take over their position. Discovering that the unit is really a demolition team come to blow up the bridge, Scholten cries hysterically: "Why did we have to defend it, then? Five are lying over there who've fought for this bridge." Author Gregor's final irony: after driving the demolition squad away from "our" bridge, Scholten is killed by a fellow German...