Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right now, it's these American military advisers and personnel who direct this traitorous "Khmer Republic" in its ministries, in the provinces still occupied by the traitors, and in its army. These American military advisers direct military operations and take part in combat...
...Governor General, Manuel Pimentel Dos Santos, a hardliner, would not accept dismissal by Junta Leader General Antónío Spínola, and would instead declare Mozambique a white independent nation. But Army Commander in Chief General Basto Machado sent a company of paratroopers from the northern combat area to Lourenço Marques as a precaution, and in the end, Dos Santos and his family flew quietly back to Lisbon. In the African possessions of Angola and Portuguese Guinea also, the Governors General peacefully surrendered their jobs. Nonetheless, in all three provinces the chief guerrilla leaders have...
Similar fairs are taking place hi other cities, sponsored by the National Association of College Admissions Counselors (N.A.C.A.C.). The fairs are higher education's newest tactic to combat a downturn in the rate of enrollment that threatens the survival of dozens of colleges-most of them private-and the financial stability of many more. Some 150 institutions, from Boston University (enrollment: 15,000) to North Carolina's Davidson College (1,100) paid $150 to set up booths for the daylong fair. Representatives of the American College Testing Program and the Veterans Administration were also on hand to advise...
...personal situation, he doesn't doubt that he may see a second holocaust in his lifetime. He refuses, however, to deceive himself into thinking he can combat it. Vrba has little faith in humanity at large, but he does believe that there are noble individuals. "If the Boston Globe suddenly announces tomorrow that there are too many Jews on the faculty of Mass General, I don't know if help will come for me from other Jews, from Jack Smith, or from no one. I saved myself once without any help and perhaps I could do it again...
CAMBRIDGE, like many other old industrial towns in the Boston area, must combat the increasingly serious problem of an ever-shrinking tax base. As more and more of the taxable property in the city shifts from private residential and industrial ownership to non-profit, tax-exempt institutions, the city loses large amounts of its potential tax revenue. A shrinking tax base and an increasing city budget add up to a greater and greater tax burden that must be born by Cambridge homeowners and businessmen. And, in the last few years, these individuals have placed mounting pressure on the city government...