Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scenes, taking the less obvious form of news documentaries, reports of "concerned citizens' groups," and the ever-present Pentagon predictions of an impending apocalypse. A recent CBS-TV documentary, for instance, focused on charges that the current all-volunteer army cannot find the crack troops needed to face any attack by the Soviet Union; the implication throughout the show was that the U.S. armed forces are not now in "a proper state of readiness," and may never be--as long as the all-volunteer format persists. Other critics, especially in the Southern delegations to Congress, have perceptively pointed...
...Saudis also insist they have no intention of basing the planes at their Tabuk airbase, which is only 125 miles from the Israeli port of Eilat. One reason is that the Saudis do not want the planes, which cost $16 million apiece, to be unnecessarily vulnerable to Israeli attack. (During the October War of 1973, the Saudis moved most of their combat planes away from bases near Israel...
...never established. None of the standard international signals to land, such as lowering wheels and turning on landing lights, were given. Instead, U.S. officials say, one of the Sukhoi-15s fired two missiles at the plane; the first hit above the left wing, while the second missed entirely. The attack killed a Korean businessman and a Japanese tourist and depressurized the fuselage, forcing the pilot, Captain Kim Chang Kyu, to begin a steep dive to an altitude...
...four Bronze Stars. In 1945 he came home to Mary, their two children, Catherine, 9, and Timothy, 3, and a relaxed life of horses and pleasant conversation. After one fox hunt in the fall of 1946, however, Mary, who was in fact allergic to horses, suffered a violent asthmatic attack. Her heart strained beyond endurance, she died before nightfall...
...Peccerrillo led a 14-hit attack against Northeastern by bashing a grand slam home run in the Crimson's six-run eighth inning. Mike Stenhouse's two-run doubles and an intentional walk to Mark Bingham preceded Peccerillo's blast...