Word: combat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generate hysteria" over a "highly improbable U.S. war in the region." For the record, The New York Times reported yesterday that U.S. pilots were flying night-time bombing missions over San Salvador. In addition, the 55 United States military advisors in EI Salvador are presently engaging in combat, and U.S. warships have moved to EI Salvador's coast...
Bush's threat was undermined a day later by his own Defense Department. Pentagon Comptroller Sean O'Keefe told the Senate Armed Services Committee that an $8.1 billion cut in defense would result in a 10% loss in U.S. combat readiness, an unacceptable political risk...
...racism are also used to dehumanize, and thus to scapegoat the enemy. Misogyny, with its unmitigated assertion of superiority and justification of violence, is widespread--witness the incidence of rape as an act of war, the harassment of servicewomen within the forces, and the exclusion of women from combat positions that give access to higher rank and higher pay. Classism is blatant in the rank system and in the economic backgrounds of people who fill those ranks. Homophobia is only one example of oppressive forces that are at work in the military. Even if the exclusionary policy were changed tomorrow...
...panel of four conservationists mediated by Richard D. Estes, associate in mammalogy in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, discussed the plight of the African elephant and debated how best to combat its decline...
When the action shifts to his minimalist pad, where he surprises his lover in bed with a boyfriend, he caroms between Noel Coward worldliness and Edward Albee combat, hinting at suicide, half attempting murder. In earlier versions of the play, the bloody pathos of opera found a parallel: the abandoned man stabbed his lover, then held him in a last embrace. That ending felt arch. This one feels anticlimactic, void of release. So does the end of an affair, an event McNally chronicles with specific detail and authentic, universal pain...