Word: defenders
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Students in the concentration defend its approach, saying they likely won't go directly into engineering. Nonas, for example, wants to be a doctor, not an engineer...
...officials say the sales foster good relations with other military forces, enable those countries to defend themselves better and reduce the price of U.S. weapons by spreading the cost over bigger production runs. "We're pushing hard for overseas arms sales to make up for the shrinking U.S. military budget," confides an arms marketeer at a major defense contractor. "It's a matter of survival...
...hours after the ex-Assistant Attorney General's press conference, Pichardo and Moreno were holding one of their own to defend themselves. Two days later Pichardo said he was formally suing Ruiz Massieu for defamation and slander. Although the three emphatically declared their innocence, the accusations against them seem destined to widen a web of suspicion that expands with each passing month. By last week, Ruiz Massieu's office had charged 15 people in the planning, execution and cover-up of his brother's death. Several are prominent officials, including a P.R.I. congressman who allegedly masterminded the killing...
...spirits were temporarily buoyed when 10,000 Gazans rallied for him last week. Among them were several hundred Fatah Hawks, a military branch of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Hawks, who had been ignored of late by Arafat, swore, in chanted slogans, to defend him and the Authority. The militiamen then drove around the Gaza Strip, brandishing their guns and shouting slogans such as, "We shall shave the beards ((of the Islamists)) with our shoes...
That did not stop the Serbs either. So U.N. military and civilian officials pleaded in rapid succession with Serb and Muslim leaders in Bosnia and with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. NATO officials in Brussels interrupted Thanksgiving Day to discuss a new U.S. proposal to defend Bihac, while U.N. officials claimed -- then unclaimed -- that they had mediated a cease-fire. When the Serbian artillery continued to pound Bihac on Friday in defiance of more U.N. warnings, NATO jets flew again, but darkness fell and the planes did not drop their bombs...