Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make much of the bits and scraps she is given. She is misdirected by Melvin Frank (A Touch of Class) to underline cartoon New York mannerisms: a threatened rasp in the voice that can easily twitch into hysteria, a battery of body movements that look like preliminaries for infantry combat...
Legal Tools. Washington has only begun to explore what legal tools are available to combat the boycott. Many antitrust law experts believe that Section 1 of the Sherman Act, which forbids contract combinations or conspiracy in restraint of trade, could be used against, say, an Arab bank that refused to deal with U.S. companies that have ties with Israel; but enforcement would be impos sible unless the bank had assets located within the jurisdiction of a U.S. court...
AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS in which the "American people voted only for "peace" candidates, the policy is still the same. And after fifteen years in which the American government spent $150 billion and in which 50,000 American men died in combat, the policy still does not fit the facts. Built into this policy, of course, is the assumption that Cambodia is "ours" to "lose." Moreover, the president said last week. "The policy of this country is to help those nations with military hardware--not U.S. military personnel--where the government and the people of a country want to protect their...
...each plane will cost $111 million-the most expensive plane ever built by the Air Force. Packed with computers, radars and jamming gear, the AW ACS will be able to spot far-off targets, including very low-flying planes, and feed instructions to wide-ranging U.S. combat aircraft. Over the English Channel recently, a prototype plane was able to direct an entire simulated NATO battlefront, even while it was keeping an eye on aerial movements in East European and Russian airspace as far away as Moscow...
...satisfied with the operation. We had reasonably good success." commented Brigadier General John N. Brandenberg after surveying the combat zone last week. Littering a wooded area at Fort Campbell, Ky., were about 500,000 corpses-of blackbirds. Brandenberg did not mention that some 4.5 million other blackbirds were still very much alive in the trees...