Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats left Kansas City with their party strengthened and unified. Contrary to earlier fears, the mini-convention proved to be not an arena for further fratricidal combat but a solid staging platform for preparing to take on Ford in 1976. Whether that newfound unity can hold up when it comes down to choosing one candidate to represent the party's diverse factions two years from now remains to be seen...
From the stage of Boston's Pilgrim Theater, a seedy burlesque house in the city's newly designated "Combat Zone" for sex films and ecdysiast exhibitions, a shapely, silken-gowned Fanne Foxe, "the Argentine Firecracker," had a surprise for her audience. "I'd like you to meet somebody," she said, then called to the wings: "Mr. Mills, Mr. Mills! Where are you?" Onto the stage strode Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Daigh Mills, 65, the redoubtable Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Placing a hand on Fanne's shoulder, Mills began a brief exchange...
...children to camp, even hiring babysitters-are becoming too expensive for many middle income Americans and almost impossible for the swelling ranks of the unemployed. Paradoxically, an increase in marital stability may result-though at a price. Solid marriages should hold up, say psychologists, as families band together to combat adversity, and bad marriages will tend to last too. Reason...
...rounding up I.R.A. terrorists in Ulster, English police have so far failed to crack any of the tiny "active service units" that have brought the bloody civil war across the Irish Sea to England. In London, Home Secretary Roy Jenkins at week's end pledged "emergency legislation" to combat the terrorists...
...through years of wanton attacks by Palestinian bombers and gunmen-terrorists are callous, cowardly murderers preying on innocent women and children. For their part, terrorists usually present themselves as revolutionaries, guerrillas and freedom fighters. They defend the use of violence as the necessary tactic of downtrodden peoples seeking to combat oppressive or colonial governments. In the eyes of their followers, the terrorists' successful use of violence often adds to, rather than detracts from their claim to respectability. Thus it is quite possible, if an independent Palestinian state is ever established, that statues of Arafat will some day be erected...