Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger played a key role, too, in the year's most significant foreign policy achievement: the negotiated withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from the nation's debilitating involvement in the Viet Nam War. However tardy, the settlement allowed 587 American prisoners of war to return home, the draft to be suspended and the domestic strife that had inspired a rebellious counterculture to be eased. It did not, however, achieve a true peace for Viet Nam itself and at year's end fighting continued almost unabated...
...Britain, this will be a Christmas of extraordinary hardship. The country is staggering under a savage double blow: the oil shortage and widespread labor disruptions. Together, the two crises have left the nation desperately short of fuel for homes and industry. To combat the problem, Prime Minister Edward Heath last week ordered stern restrictions on fuel use and asked Britons to make their greatest belt-tightening sacrifices since World...
During World War II, Walsh served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy, navigating combat and escort aircraft carriers. A colleague, George W. Mackey, Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science, said yesterday that "Walsh was proud to have been the oldest Harvard professor still in active service during...
...community delegations. "I know you expect me to fail," he candidly told a small group of skeptical journalists. "All I can say is that I will do my best not to." Once, when a delegation from the Protestant paramilitary Ulster Defense Association appeared, ominously clad in dark glasses and combat uniforms, Whitelaw casually offered them afternoon tea. He scandalized Protestants by flying members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army to a secret meeting at a borrowed house in London's fashionable Chelsea district. Observes the Alliance Party's Bob Cooper: "Whitelaw had the ability to search through...
...trustees also declared their support for legislation to combat discrimination against homosexuals in the fields of housing, employment and licensing...