Word: attacking
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Carter stressed his continued support of the "triad" defense system. The president said he believes the current fleet ofB-52's is capable of providing the air-attack portion of America's nuclear strike force for at least the next decade...
Nuclear Balance. As Soviet amphibious exercises gradually advance toward Denmark's shores, Danes have become concerned about a surprise attack. Says a high-level Danish officer; "There has been a vast erosion of our warning time in case of attack." The Danes talk about a "Yom Kippur War syndrome," recalling that in 1973 Cairo was able to surprise the Israelis partly because the Egyptian army had been pressing its maneuvers forward little by little and holding them frequently. Says a top Danish military official: "We must be careful that we do not accept the repetition of the unusual...
Died. Tom Campbell Clark, 77, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-1967); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. The genial, Texas-born Clark came to Washington in 1937 and rose quickly in the Department of Justice, where he prosecuted war fraud cases. A close associate of Senator Harry Truman, he was appointed Attorney General when Truman became President, and an Associate Justice four years later. Clark initially aroused Truman's ire by joining the court's conservative wing, but gradually moved leftward as a member of the Warren Court. He wrote several far-reaching liberal opinions, including...
...such remarks. In this collection she offers her views on a variety of social events and movements over the last ten years; almost without exception her opinions are so unsubstantiated (except by more opinion) and presented so belligerently that the disagreeing reader is forced to spluttering defensiveness, to personal attack and outraged invective...
...best example of this kind of attack is Trilling's response to the furor created last spring when her original publisher refused to go ahead with the book unless Trilling removed some remarks about Lillian Hellman in an essay defending American liberals' role in the anticommunist movement of the '50s. (A classic liberal, Trilling considers communism a terrible danger. In a 1967 essay included in this volume, she says the war in Vietnam is a serious error, not because it represents American aggression, but because it is not the best way to stop the Red Menace.) Trilling refused to comply...