Word: defenders
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However, McCorvey's decision is certainly a symbolic loss to the campaign for women's rights. For the last 20 years, abortion rights groups have had to defend the famous decision against constant attacks. In fact, McCorvey's recent conservative turn mirrors some of the Court's chipping away at its original decision, including restricting second trimester abortion rights which it had upheld through Roe v. Wade in more recent cases...
...Krajina army was originally expected to employ a collapsing defense strategy, holding a prepared line for a time, then falling back to another prepared position until it reached an area that was finally defensible. Experts deemed it a reasonable strategy; not only is Krajina too large to defend in its entirety, but the weight of both geography and history were on their side. "They are frontiersmen," said one Western diplomat in Belgrade, who pointed out that Serbs were first sent to Krajina by the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a buffer against the Turks. "These guys were the eternal defense...
Threats against the Balkan fighting cocks will make things worse. We in the West have not the will, the manpower nor the sense to stop those at war in the region. Can anybody defend the actions taken by the Balkan warlords or the useless talk by NATO members and the U.N.? Can't we shame those "leaders" into behaving like humans? ROLF JAMES Toronto...
...seek pre-emptive air strikes on rebel Serbs in the region. "There's only one thing that's going to protect the Bosnian people againstthe Serb expansion," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who waved published reports of continued Serb aggression. "And that is if they're allowed to defend themselves." More significant, Senate Republicans have secured the two-thirds needed to override a promised presidential veto if an identical measure passes the House, possibly by Thursday, by a similar margin. Whatever the outcome, TIME's Marguerite Michaels says, the drama is being played out for domestic consumption, and will...
...NATO allies conference in London, argued on the Senate floor that the embargo merely established a built-in military advantage for rebel Bosnian Serb forces. "We have an obligation to the Bosnian people and to our principles to allow a U.N. member state, the victim of aggression, to defend itself," he said. Clinton, clearly frustrated, fired off a letter to Senate Republicans warning of a potential U.S. quagmire: "Unilateral lift means unilateral responsibility," he wrote. "Congress would undermine efforts to achieve a negotiated settlement in Bosnia and could lead to an escalation of the conflict there." France and Britain have...