Word: supportable
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...Department contends that the agreement does not constitute any commitment by the U.S. to defend Spain if it is attacked by another nation, and thus is not similar to a mutual-defense treaty requiring ratification. The highly ambiguous language of the agreement includes a promise that each government "will support the defense system of the other" and "will make compatible their respective defense policies in areas of mutual interest." No one seems sure just what that means-which is probably the intent. The agreement will allow the U.S. to continue to use three airbases in Spain (at Saragossa, Moron...
...Last Monday, Brigadier General W.W. Stone Jr., Director of Chemical and Nuclear Operations, told a nervous Senate subcommittee that the Army would never again carry defective or old nerve weaponry around the country by train, a virtual admission that the plan was not a sound one. Called on to support the Army plan, the White House environmental expert, Russell Train, cited the need to dispose of the rockets (earlier Senate witnesses had testified that the propellant was becoming unstable and that there was evidence of small leaks), but he admitted the plan was at best "the least undesirable...
...need of liberation. On Viet Nam, she shares the view that the U.S. should not have entered the war, but agrees that Nixon's pace of withdrawal is the best currently possible. Something stronger will likely be needed to best Hart, a popular liberal Democrat with widespread support throughout the state...
...Shirley Chisholm, 45, now the only black Congresswoman and a Democratic candidate for re-election in New York City, is a maverick who deserted her party's candidate in order to support John Lindsay and could have written the book on Women's Liberation. Tough, honest and a veteran of years of political in-fighting in New York City, she believes that discrimination against women is so severe that "we have not even reached the level of tokenism...
...first mention of the word "withdrawal" in her speech to the Knesset (parliament), Gahal Leader Menahem Begin rose from his Cabinet seat and walked slowly past Golda to the members' benches, thus fracturing the three-year-old government of national unity. Nonetheless, the Premier easily won support for her peace stand by a vote...