Word: rearguard
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...continuing a rearguard action against Viet Nam. A few weeks ago, it looked as if Washington were on the verge of approving Viet Nam's entry into the United Nations. The U.S. price: an accounting of the 800 Americans listed as missing in action (MIAS). Hanoi said it could not give one because it is still seeking out the missing Americans, and came back with a demand for reconstruction aid promised under the 1973 Paris cease-fire agreement. Washington regards that agreement as void because of the North Vietnamese invasion of the South...
...only the third time in the past half-century, the Senate last week went to a fourth cloture vote to break a filibuster: the two-month-long rearguard action to keep a bill creating a consumer protection agency from coming to a final vote on the Senate floor. The cloture vote, 64 to 34, was two short of the 66 needed to end the filibuster, but proponents of the bill refused to let it die. Convinced that they could muster two additional votes, they asked Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield for an unprecedented fifth try. If they can prove they...
...generation of activists grew apathetic: the old spirit of Dylan and Joan Baez seemed to have evaporated. The stage was taken over by a capering rearguard of glitter rockers, demonists and hip vaudevillians...
...Boxers are natural material for Author Faust's particular talent: the humane handling of born losers whose illusions run away with them. He does too little with it, however. The book is a loose braiding of Benson's rearguard action against middle age with Blake's daring adventures during the Boxer Rebellion. "Fictionally oriented history" is what Benson calls his Blake novel. Like Faust's own Willy Remembers (1971), in which a 93-year-old veteran re-creates an addled version of the Spanish American War, Sid Benson tries to recapture a simpler, more dashing time...
...almost dishonest competition." Similarly sympathetic was Actress Catherine Deneuve, who allowed that she was "weary of naked women. Let's have some nude men, s'il vous plait." Among those outraged by the spectacle was Henri Larivière, a professional poster plasterer. In a rearguard action, as it were, he partially covered some of the posters with white rectangular patches that the French television network uses as a warning against material that is "not for minors...