Word: combat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week. Carter flew south to inspect the damage wreaked on the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Frederic. Arriving in Mobile, Ala., outfitted in work boots to combat the mud, he pledged that the Government would supply mobile homes for people who have been forced out of their own residences...
...criminal code, he is to the left of the Administration and the country on many issues. He remains strongly committed to such ambitious federal programs as his cradle-to-grave national health insurance. Unlike the President, he opposes decontrol of oil prices and restricting the money supply to combat inflation. He is in a bigger hurry than Carter to stimulate the economy in the hope of lessening the impact of the recession. He is likely to favor a payroll and business tax cut, but he would enforce wage and price guidelines more rigorously than the President...
...private elevator and rode up to the seventh-floor office of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. After each meeting, both diplomats avoided reporters' questions. There had already been far too much threatening and ill-considered rhetoric about the problem that confronted them: the controversial role of Soviet combat troops in Cuba...
...been training the Cuban army for 17 years, and had changed in neither size nor function during that entire period. Furthermore, said Pravda, the Soviet troops had "an inalienable right" to be where they were. Added Pravda: "All contentions about the arrival in Cuba of 'organized Soviet combat units' are totally groundless." The paper blamed the whole crisis on elements within the U.S. Government that were trying both to undermine Cuba and prevent Senate ratification of SALT...
...about the whole affair was the number of questions that remained unanswered. Was there really a buildup of Soviet forces in Cuba? If so, since when, and by how much? What exactly was the Soviet brigade doing in Cuba? Was it merely training Cubans, or did it have a combat role? Did its presence represent a Soviet gesture to support Castro's maintenance of 40,000 Cuban soldiers in Africa? Was it guarding Soviet information-gathering installations that eavesdropped on the U.S.? And if U.S. intelligence did not know the answers to any or all of these questions...