Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political repercussions of the week's violence. Photographer Eddie Adams headed to 'Ain el Hilweh, a refugee camp that had been hit by Israeli planes, where he was guarded closely by armed commandos. Correspondent William Stewart, a journalistic veteran of Viet Nam and India-Pakistan combat, also visited 'Ain el Hilweh with TIME'S Abu Said. They poked through the ruins and talked with bitter but resolute Palestinians...
...Viet Nam truce of 16 months ago satisfied one urgent desire of the Americans and the North Vietnamese- extrication of U.S. forces from the combat. But fighting continues as both the South Vietnamese and the Communists violate the agreement with metronomic regularity. Neither side seems genuinely interested in further compromise that could lead to real peace...
...junta has no intention of granting independence now. Even as small numbers of the thousands of young Portuguese who fled their country to escape the draft began trickling back last week, troops were boarding transports at Portela airport to be flown to combat areas in the territories...
Though Snedden had been derided by one of his critics as a Milquetoast who "couldn't go two rounds with a revolving door," he has, in fact, turned out to have a distinct knack for political combat. He has unexpectedly put the more charismatic Whitlam on the defensive by his broadsides against Whitlam's abrasive policies. In foreign affairs, Snedden has accused Whitlam of needlessly alienating Australia's two closest friends, the U.S. and Britain, and has promised a more traditional, pro-Western policy...
Died. Walter Clay Lowdermilk, 85, land and water conservationist; in Berkeley, Calif. As a forestry professor in Nanking, China, in the 1920s, Lowdermilk concluded that the vast wastelands of northern China were a product of careless exploitation of agricultural resources. In a vigorous lifelong crusade to combat what he termed "man-induced erosion," Lowdermilk oversaw numerous U.S. conservation programs over the years and served as consultant to the governments of Mexico, Japan and Yugoslavia. His pet project was the early agricultural development of Israel, where his suggestion that water from the Jordan River be diverted to irrigate the desert...