Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...account for roughly one-third of the 42,000 U.S. servicemen still stationed in South Korea. Strung out across 159 installations, exposed to sub-zero cold and vulnerable to blitz attack from crack North Korean units, they are probably the toughest, best-trained and most combat-ready American forces anywhere. They are also among the most important politically. On the one hand, Pyongyang views them as the major obstacle to its unifying the Korean peninsula under Communist rule; on the other, Seoul sees the American presence (although reduced considerably from its 1953 peak of 325,000 men) as both...
...keep U.S. combat forces in top shape, Stilwell has ordered an exhausting training regimen, and no outfit has carried his orders further than the 2nd Division. Each quarter, every unit of the 2nd undergoes two weeks of training in night fighting; the men sleep during the day and maneuver at night in rugged terrain to accustom themselves to the night attacks employed by Communist troops 25 years ago. Every six months the division's infantrymen participate in air-mobile exercises complete with artillery support, helicopter gunships and fighter-bombers-and live ammunition...
When a President gives good will, it is hard not to return it, as Democrat Strauss found out at a recent Gridiron dinner. Strauss got up and, as is the custom, deftly skewered the Republicans and verbally poked the President. Ford did not try to combat such wit with more wit. Instead, he turned and praised Strauss as a man of high purpose and ability, someone who could be President himself. Those around Strauss were sure they heard the Democrat muller, as he glowed in the tribute, "Why, the son of a bitch...
...sort of anxious resignation set in. A scene that looked relatively simple laid out on the director's storyboard, one that called only for Bruce to negotiate a left turn, might take two days to shoot. To combat ennui, Spielberg and Dreyfuss would sing comedy songs by Stan Freberg, a hero of their teen-age years. Spielberg also had a primitive projection room constructed on one of the boats. "Universal had only two films they could send us from their Boston office," Spielberg recalls. "We watched Ma and Pa Kettle On the Farm...
...once catered to thirsty Senators. She has spent most of her three months on the job assembling a staff of 200, including some top economists. They will be kept busy in the next few months. A typical task will come this summer, when Congress, in a move to combat unemployment, will decide whether to spend more on public works or simply send more revenue-sharing funds to state and local governments, or combinations of both. Rivlin's staff will analyze the costs of both programs in order to provide Congress with objective standards for a choice...