Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraordinary burst of candor, he added: "I hope I'm right. I hope for the good of the country I'm right." Nixon, too, must be hoping for a better show from Agnew. He himself now regrets his choice-although in public he must continue to defend it. In retrospect, he looks longingly at respected public figures such as John Gardner, who might well have been available...
...Department of Chemistry extended the invitation to Dow almost a year ago in November 1967, but has been working through October on a proposal to set up a public meeting where Dow would be required to defend its policies...
...SFAC resolution forced a company to defend its policies in a public meeting if 500 undergraduates asked it to do so, but under the Chemistry Department proposal only ten per cent of the 300 graduate students in chemistry needed to ask for the confrontation...
...CZECHOSLOVAKIA! and SHAME ON THE INVADERS! Beaten, cursed and arrested by KGB (secret police) agents, they were charged with making a public disturbance and slandering the Soviet Union. After a three-day trial, a Moscow court two weeks ago imposed terms of exile or imprisonment on the five defendants. By banning foreign newsmen from the trial and by packing the small courtroom with a specially selected hostile audience, the Soviet authorities sought to curb information about the proceedings. They failed. Last week Western newsmen in Moscow received surreptitious copies* of the final remarks of two of those on trial...
...almost two generations the N.A.A.C.P. has devoted much of its time to representing the Negro in courts throughout the nation. Last week the organization was more than a little embarrassed at having to defend itself against charges pressed by its own chief lawyer. The N.A.A.C.P. board of directors, said General Counsel Robert Carter, acted in a manner that was "arbitrary, demeaning and intolerable" when it fired Lewis Steel, 31, one of his ablest staff attorneys...