Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 23--Hanging an effigy of President Sukarno of Indonesia, 2000 cheering Malaysian students today demanded they be given military training to defend their young nation. Other groups, representing several hundred thousand Malayans, also expressed willingness to fight. At the same time, Indonesia formed a "crush-Malaysia action command...
Undertakers defend the beautifying and display of the dead as providing "grief therapy" for the bereaved, so that they are left with a Beautiful Memory Picture. But in countries where embalming is not customary (and contrary to popular belief, it is not legally required in the U.S.), those left behind do not seem to be noticeably worse...
...wrangle over details with the British, Indonesia failed to send observers to the U.N. mission, thus giving Sukarno an excuse to question the U.N. findings later. But faced with British determination to defend Malaysia by force, if necessary, Sukarno said: "If the Borneo peoples agree to join Malaysia, we will have to bow our heads and obey." But, added Sukarno, in an unbowed postscript: "Indonesia maintains its opposition to Malaysia...
Statistical Impossibility. In its pure state machismo is linked with valor, courage, honor and dignity, but too often it is more gun-toting brag than performance. Machos insist that the women they marry be virgins, and they will defend the honor of their sisters to the death-all of which makes their endless tales of conquest a statistical impossibility. In industry, machismo makes business a one-man show; a boss makes decisions, wrong or right, almost in spite of his advisers. Internationally it can raise a Latin negotiator to his full height with a proud rejection of proffered aid -even...
...merger possibility that we think we're going to be attacked on, we just forget it," says Executive Vice President Gene Trefethen of Kaiser Industries. Stauffer Chemical dropped its plans to buy American Viscose Corp. when the trustbusters showed interest. "It's enormously expensive to defend an antitrust charge," notes Moses Lasky, a San Francisco antitrust lawyer. "Just to have one of them brought against you is extremely serious financially...