Word: combat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most military actions of this kind, surprise is essential. But in a case like Iran's, it would be very difficult to achieve. Without surprise, hostages could be killed once their captors discovered that a rescue was under way. One major problem last week was that no U.S. combat units were near Iran. The 51,000-ton carrier Midway, with its 75 warplanes, was about 2,000 miles away in the Indian Ocean, and the closest Marine Amphibious Force was in the Mediterranean...
...woman cadet was forced by male classmates to bite off the head of a live chicken as punishment for too conspicuously dating a male cadet, who in turn was subjected to verbal abuse by his fellow students. One of them remarked loudly: "If I had a woman leader in combat and she proved incompetent, I'd shoot her in the back...
THAT SCENARIO may be just one of many, but it points to the real need city liberals feel to establish a ruling liberal majority in the next election. Winning that fifth CCA seat won't be easy. To combat the single-minded determination of the city's conservative voters, who often pick their friend's son and bullet vote for him, liberals can choose from two different but compatible strategies...
Edward Miller, a Boston police detective who worked for the vice control unit at the time of the Puopolo stabbing, testified that men who frequent the Combat Zone often assist prostitutes in robbing male pedestrians. Thomas J. Mundy Jr., Suffolk County assistant district attorney, has said the three defendants were providing such assistance when they fought with the Harvard students and thus acted with forethought...
While witnesses in the Puopolo murder retrial described the 1976 confrontation in Boston's Combat Zone in increasingly bloody detail last week, defense attorneys continued to accuse the prosecution of manipulating the jury...