Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...exercise and equally vigorous political indoctrination. Each unit has a "Lenin room" in its barracks, where there are propaganda displays, such as pictures of racial troubles in the U.S. and political literature. The Soviet soldier is instilled with a sense of dedication to the Communist cause, a readiness to defend the motherland and a xenophobic dread of foreign subversion...
...South Africa's 17th century settlers, "going into laager" meant forming a circle with their covered wagons to defend themselves against attacks by native tribes. To their present-day descendants, it means turning increasingly to the repressive strictures of apartheid to protect themselves against the nonwhite majority. Five times since 1948, the electorate has gone into laager by returning the white-supremacist, Boer-dominated Nationalist government to power, each time with increased majorities. Last week, for the first time in 22 years, South Africa's voters took a short step back toward the moderate center...
...board is still in business, insist its members. It can, to be sure, still pin a Communist label on any group, but it cannot name individual members. In fact, the board has become a monument to futility-and to the courts' determination to defend the rights of all individuals, even those who are unpopular...
...federal district court blocked the New York road; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has just upheld that decision. Speaking for the court, Judge Leonard Moore stressed the new right of citizens' groups to defend "natural resources, scenic beauty and historical value" of areas threatened with drastic alteration. Such groups, he added, can prove their sincerity by taking on "the burdensome and costly processes of intervention...
...earlier biography, Jack Newfield's Robert Kennedy: A Memoir, is without doubt the best of the Kennedy books; in comparison to it, On His Own seems especially vacuous. Newfield does not try to defend Kennedy's mistakes, but rather makes them understandable-and forgivable-within the context of his character. Writing largely from his personal contact with Kennedy, Newfield succeeds in developing a comprehensive view of him and his political development. His Robert Kennedy is outstanding. There is no reason to read On His Own: RFK 1964-68 in addition...