Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brave talk, Kassem was in a tight corner. Britain announced that it was withdrawing 2,000 of the 5,000 troops it had rushed to defend Kuwait against Kassem, and Kuwait emphasized its eagerness to speed the evacuation. But in a barbed memorandum issued after a hurried visit to Nasser, the Kuwaitis declared that they would not ask the British to leave until either 1) Kassem drops all claims on their land, or 2) other Arab countries provide a police force of their own to replace the British, and themselves guarantee Kuwait's independence. The plan...
...troop carriers, into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After the fiasco at Suez, the British were delighted at the chance to demonstrate that they could still defend the vital areas of the Middle East that are the source of Britain...
...Salazar charged that the U.S. was serving Communist subversion in Africa by voting for the resolution and offering support to Africa's black anti-colonialists. Said Salazar: "Everything in this world is beginning to be so topsy-turvy that those who do injury are considered worthy, those who defend themselves are criminals, and the states . . . which limit themselves to securing order in their territories are incriminated by the very countries that are at the root of the disorder created there...
There was plenty of cause for the massive aversion to the job. The Assistant Secretary is supposed to blueprint the State Department's Latin American policy for presentation to the Secretary of State and the President; he must also defend that policy on Capitol Hill. But under the Kennedy Administration, other New Frontiersmen have come to dabble deeply In Latin American affairs. They include U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, currently on a good-will tour in Latin America; Kennedy Aides Richard Goodwin, architect of the Alliance for Progress program, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Mc-George Bundy; and Adolf Berle, chief...
...such neutral ground, with cautious kudos for the presidential stance in the international batting box. The Vienna meeting, said the Boston Traveler, "has done much to raise American prestige abroad, to strengthen the Western Alliance, and probably to jolt Premier Khrushchev into a sober reassessment of our determination to defend freedom." Columnist Walter Lippmann, a man who has had two private audiences with Khrushchev and upholds the principle of "accommodation" in dealing with the Reds (TIME, Dec. 22, 1958), termed Vienna "significant and important because it marked the re-establishment of full diplomatic intercourse." Wrote Pundit Lippmann: "As a result...