Word: combat
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Still, the cold-fusion combat is not just the physicists vs. the chemists. There is a sense in Salt Lake City that most of Pons' critics are what Utah chemist David Grant calls "the mean bullies from the Eastern establishment." Such snooty folks should remember, he says, that "science is not the domain of one set of colleges or one set of people anymore...
...does the military discriminate against gays? This question seems to have been taken for granted during the ROTC debate. The military forbids women from participating in combat and even in noncombat roles and rigidly segregates them from men, forbidding heterosexual relationships in the process. The military does everything to minimize horizontal ties which would dilute the vertical ones of the command hierarchy. Given the separation of women from men and the minimization of horizontal ties, which the vast majority of Americans accept, how does one propose to integrate gays into the armed forces without contradicting these goals? Never has this...
...CHARLIE MOPIC. In the jungles of Viet Nam, a lost patrol finds enemies on both sides of combat. But the main character of Patrick Duncan's war movie is a documentary-film camera. Through its unblinking eye, a familiar horror story gains raw immediacy...
...battleship Iowa is believed to have made it through World War II and the Korean War without a single officer or crew member being killed in combat. But last week, in one of the worst accidents in recent U.S. military history, an explosion in the second gun turret of the 46-year-old vessel took the lives of 47 young sailors. At week's end investigators were still trying to determine the cause of the blast as the Iowa steamed toward its home port of Norfolk, Va. Defective electrical wiring, a damaged firing mechanism in the ship's gun system...
Even the Soviet air force is getting into the act. Last week TASS reported that 60 military planes have been commissioned to speed produce from the southern farm belt to major cities. Said Colonel General Vyacheslav Yefanov, chief of Military Transport Aviation: "Combat readiness will by no means be reduced." But the long lines at the grocery store...