Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many French and British officials are convinced, in fact, that the environmental issue raised by U.S. opponents is actually a smokescreen. The French are still smarting over last July's arms deal in which the U.S. aced out their Mirage F-l combat plane by persuading NATO to choose the American-designed F-16 as its standard fighter. They see U.S. opposition to the Concorde as a move to protect the American aerospace industry, which despite a bad year still supplies 90% to 95% of the commercial aircraft flown outside the Soviet Union. The British take a similar point...
...moved ahead of industry in eliminating sex barriers. Of a total 2.1 million people in the armed forces, 91,000 are women; 4,600 are nonmedical officers, including two brigadier generals. Fully 92% of the job categories in the Army?everything except the infantry, artillery and other direct-combat roles?are open to them. So are all but the topmost chief-of-staff ranks. Young women like Commander Byerly can aspire to positions that older women officers never dreamed of?they came up when females in the services were circumscribed and largely segregated in separate corps. Now women...
...over the world and loved it." She also loved the intense atmosphere of Washington when she and Kellie were stationed there and hopes for a future assignment in the capital?"a high-pressure post, which we both enjoy." What Kathleen Byerly does not relish is the thought of combat, but she adds, "I don't know any man who does either, and I would not like to deny any woman the opportunity to do anything she is capable of doing, including firing...
Treasury Secretary William Simon was a principal author of the Administration's economic policy of curtailing spending to combat inflation. It was a role that could give him some satisfaction as the year ended. The U.S. was recovering from its most severe postwar recession, and the rate of inflation had been cut to 7.3% from 12.2% in 1974. Consistent with his conservative views, Simon had been the strongest counsel in the Administration against federal aid to New York City. Under political pressure, he was forced to moderate his position, but not before the near bankrupt city adopted more prudent fiscal...
...based outfit called the Fifth Estate, whose purpose is to expose covert American intelligence activities. Among the leading members of this organization is former CIA Agent Philip Agee, author of Inside the Company: CIA Diary. Writing in Counterspy, Agee said that "the most effective and important systematic efforts to combat the CIA that can be undertaken right now are, I think, the identification, exposure and neutralization of its people working abroad." One intelligence official, however, bitterly labeled Counterspy's roster of CIA agents as nothing more or less than "a hit list...