Word: defending
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...meeting, sponsored by the Harvard Political Union, an audience of about 75 listened to speakers from the HUC, the SFAC and the HPC defend their organizations' proposals for a reduction in the status of ROTC which would nonetheless allow the units to remain on campus in some form. Speakers from SDS argued that Harvard should abolish ROTC outright, while representatives of YPSL supported a student referendum on the question, as has been suggested by Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
...Gaulle announced that the next day he would go on the radio to explain what he intended to do to defend the franc in lieu of devaluation. He could apply many of the same remedies that British Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins had imposed last week on Britain. He could reduce government spending still further, raise taxes and institute currency and trade controls in an attempt to stanch the outflow of francs...
...irate because King Feisal was playing host to the Sheik of Bahrain Island, the British dependency just off the coast of Saudi Arabia that has long been claimed by Iran. Even worse, Feisal was said to have promised to build a twelve-mile bridge to Bahrain and vowed to defend the is land "under any circumstances...
More significantly, the two monarchs tacitly agreed to put aside the Bahrain dispute, for the time being at least, and moved on to the more urgent problem of how to defend the Persian Gulf...
...divided and weak to defend them selves, the sheikdoms will be wide open to subversion when the British depart unless the Shah and Feisal fill the vacuum. No agreement was reached at Riyadh on joint defense measures. But, taking no chances, Iran pushed ahead with plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on arms and development in the region. The Iranians are adding three minesweepers to the nine minesweepers and 125 patrol boats already on duty in the Gulf. The first two squadrons of U.S.-built Phantom jets have arrived at the southern Iranian air base of Vahdati, only...