Word: defendes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been turning out TIME's Newswatch column. Readers who have come to know and respect the column's level-headed analyses of the press and its foibles will not be surprised to learn that the reader comes first in Griffith's mind. "I never considered it my role to defend the press," he says. "I start with the reader's curiosity and concern about the information he's getting. Sometimes this means explaining what the press does, sometimes deploring...
...heat, * offering a withdrawal within just nine months. Zia tried to put on the brakes by issuing a demand: there could be no agreement without the establishment of an interim government in Kabul that included representatives of the resistance groups. Under pressure from the U.S. Congress to defend the mujahedin's interests, the U.S. raised the stakes even further by insisting that Moscow stop all military aid to Najibullah after the pullout. Moscow rejected both points, and Pakistan subsequently backed off from its interim-regime demand when it became clear that the fractious resistance leaders would never accept even token...
...didn't want to beat a guy who is going to defend the nation tomorrow," Kumar said. "We stripped the stripes off them...
...protection," says Police Chief Robert Bonneville of Glencoe, Ill., "because guns are very rarely used to stop a break-in. They are most commonly stolen from homes." The statistics of gun ownership are chilling, for men or women: while about 200 people a year successfully use handguns to defend themselves, another 22,000 die from guns as a result of homicides, suicides or accidents...
...people decide," said Defense AttorneyJerris Leonard, urging senators to acquit thegovernor and let him defend his office in therecall election...