Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...find it surprising that Mr. Bennett should continue to defend Harvard investments in South African related corporations as we understand that last Spring he was challenged by a black South African on precisely this subject and admitted at the time that he did not have access to all the facts. It is disturbing, to say the least, that Harvard should continue to benefit financially from any companies which so readily enjoy the fruits of racism and economic exploitation in South Africa...
Many Americans now argue that the U.S. should not be asked to defend Western Europe when the Continent is capable of defending itself. In the long term, the argument is valid. But it fails to take into account the present sensitive, and perhaps promising, political situation in Europe. If the Nixon Administration says that it intends to withdraw large numbers of American troops, the U.S. and its NATO allies will lose the opportunity to use those troops as a bargaining counter for comparable force reductions by the Warsaw Pact countries. By the same token, Willy Brandt will not be able...
...Part of the tradition of the university is that people have the right to express there views." he said. "And I will defend the right of everyone to protest, so long as he does not infringe upon the right's of others," he continued...
...blacks, the straight whites, the hippie whites and Mexican-American Chicanes. The lines are rarely crossed. The noon-hour dance is dominated by blacks; the groups eat separately. There have been interracial fights and class disorders. "It's becoming anarchy," complains a woman math teacher. "Teachers have to defend themselves and not the kids?that's ass-backwards." Annabelle Hall, a white hippie-type student, is disillusioned. "Last year I really tried to mix," she says. "But it doesn't work. Someone has to suffer?you can't get a school together in a day. But why did I have...
...accord was completely ignored. As the war in Viet Nam intensified, increasing numbers of North Vietnamese poured into Laos to defend the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Chinese road builders appeared all over the north. U.S. advisers flocked to Vientiane, and American planes filled the skies-bombers to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail and transports to ferry government troops around...