Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Assembly, the U.S. fears the action may create new antagonisms between the Western powers and the Third World majority at the U.N. Among the most immediate losers in the proceedings were the black Africans, who had been seeking support for the U.N.'s Decade for Action to Combat Racism, a worldwide offensive against apartheid in southern Africa. Now the Western powers are threatening to withdraw their support...
...shouldn't be a total loss, Mahogany contains one pearl: a romantic interlude between Diana Ross and Anthony Perkins. Ross appears as Tracy, a poor girl from the Chicago ghetto who has made it big as a model in Rome. Perkins plays Sean, a former combat correspondent who has made it big as a fashion photographer. Sean's sexuality remains moot through much of the film -until the moment when he forces a chilly Tracy down on a bed and mutters, "I understand the needs of a woman...
...held for release of some of the more than 100 hard-core anarchists in prison around the country. To prevent that from happening, a special security group provides 300 bodyguards for leading federal officials, their offices and homes. Trained in the use of firearms and hand-to-hand combat as well as criminal psychology and identification, officers sit outside the door to Schmidt's office, precede and follow his car in security vehicles, and see that he travels frequently by helicopter, making security considerably easier...
...Tuesday, McCurdy had suggested that he might use some Irish terrorists to help combat the Irish-laden Friars. By last night, he was wishing that he had. "We needed a whole flock of them," McCurdy said. "As a matter of fact, though, yesterday it felt like we were right in the middle of a rebellion...
...combat this drug lag, Wardell and Lasagna urge several changes. Among them...