Word: defenders
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...following afternoon some 5,000 demonstrators filled the tiny square in front of Tallinn's pink-and-white Toompea Palace, the Estonian seat of government. It was a Russian-speaking crowd, carrying banners calling on workers to DEFEND SOVIET POWER and demanding the resignation of President Arnold Ruutel. When the protesters broke through a locked gate into the palace courtyard, Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar put out a radio call for help, crying, "We are being assaulted. This is a coup attempt." Crowds of Estonians rushed to the square and pushed the Russians...
Even a new treaty reducing strategic weapons is not likely to disarm his challengers at home. -- An epidemic of ethnic hatred is sweeping the world, and some governments are trying to combat it. -- South African vigilantes threaten a "holy war" to defend apartheid. -- A caste murder in India becomes a national scandal...
Even if our views challenge others', we ask for the chance to provide little-known information about American abortion policy and opportunities for productive debate and discussion. Depriving anyone of the opportunity to present and defend one's views is nothing less than suppression of freedom of speech, and is typical of insecure oppressors. These closed-minded attacks are violations of the spirit of a free and liberal university...
...routines. Last September, after a four-letter appearance on the MTV Video Music Awards, he was banned from the channel for life. He was tapped as SNL's guest host, according to insiders, only after other candidates (including Kyle MacLachlan of Twin Peaks) were not available. The producers defend Clay's appearance, however, as being in SNL's tradition of adventurous comedy. Says producer James Downey: "We don't feel we're endorsing everything he's ever done by having him on this show...
...will NATO defend itself against...Havel's Czechoslovakia?" Dienstbier asked...