Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worries about a return of double-digit inflation (see box), prices are rising at an 11.7% pace in Japan and at a 6% rate in West Germany, where inflation is a national phobia. Symptomatically, West Germany's Social Democratic government recently announced a $2.3 billion spending program to combat rising unemployment, but coupled it with long-term austerity measures to limit the inflationary impact...
...these "civilian volunteers" come from? There is only one sizable U.S. training school for electronic battlefield technicians, and that is the military. During the Viet Nam War, the Pentagon trained not only its own intelligence units but also CIA and National Security Agency technicians in the arts of electronic-combat surveillance, and some of them may be available. Reportedly the American technicians will also have to be well versed in the use of "sidearms," which, in the Sinai, usually mean Uzi submachine guns...
There was no point in calling the police. Some 90% of the city's 1,935 policemen were out on strike for a 13% pay increase. It was the first such walkout in the city's 125-year history. To combat it, Mayor Joseph Alioto took to TV to declare that the walkout "simply cannot be condoned and will not be condoned. I will not back away from this." Buoyed up by a superior court judge's ruling that declared the strike illegal and ordered the policemen back to work, Alioto also tried to preserve calm among...
Breastplate Combat. The Israeli Department of Antiquities rushed a district archaeologist to the kibbutz. He excitedly identified Leventhal's find as part of a statue of Roman Emperor Hadrian, who ruled from A.D. 117 to 138. Leventhal was reminded that according to Israeli law, he should have left his find in place until the official arrived. He responded that if he had not removed it, a passing tractor might well have chopped it to pieces. Besides, there was much more of the statue at the site. The sewer pipe, at first thought to be a leg, proved...
...Kampala, Uganda, next week for a meeting of the Organization of African Unity, at which motions similar to the one adopted in Jeddah will be introduced-but probably voted down. Many black African nations are annoyed because Arab oil states have raised prices but given them inadequate help to combat the resulting inflation; they also lament the loss of Israeli technical-aid programs that they had cut off to demonstrate their solidarity with the Arabs...