Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fought because we were faced with an invasion from North Vietnam. It was an invasion pushed by the Chinese and the Soviets, who wanted to control Indochina. We resisted. And the U.S. troops came to Vietnam to defend freedom and preserve stability for the whole of Southeast Asia...
...gulf crisis has turned everyone into a student. The public response resembles a massive cram session, as earnest people try to understand the complex forces at work and calculate the potential costs, human and material, of going to war. Until the Administration makes clear whether its goal is to defend Saudi Arabia, or protect the flow of oil, or free Kuwait, or crush Saddam, or punish aggression, or all of these, the public may not be able to find much justice in the cause -- or judge whether it is a goal worth dying...
...Indian and denounce the conquerors for raping and enslaving "our people" -- the ultimate, perhaps, in expropriation. Conservative prelates of the Latin American Catholic bishops' conference (CELAM), which will meet in Santo Domingo in 1992, are pushing for an anniversary declaration that stresses the heroism of missionaries who tried to defend the Indians from conquistadorial cruelty. But CELAM will also sponsor a "people's tribunal" of minority representatives and leftist adherents of liberation theology, who propose to pass judgment on 500 years of European conquest...
...front of a Miami courtroom last week in his first public appearance in months. The former Panamanian dictator read an open letter accusing the U.S. government of trying to deny him a fair trial. "It is painfully obvious that the government does not wish me to be able to defend myself," he told Federal Judge William Hoeveler. "They have taken my money, deprived me of my lawyers, videotaped me with my lawyers, wiretapped my telephone calls with my lawyers and even given them to the press. It is to the benefit of the government that I cannot defend myself...
...made your choice, and I told you I can accept it. And I can. But can you? Can you continue to be the responsible, caring, sensitive and egalitarian person you have been? Will you defend me and what I represent? When you're sitting around with your male club members in your closed space smoking cigars and drinking gin and tonics, will you cede me the respect I continue to have for you? Do you trust your new fellows and the institution you have just joined enough to be responsible for them and their actions...