Word: combatative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Carter is deeply concerned about the Soviet combat brigade in Cuba [Sept. 17]. I suppose he will demonstrate his toughness by insisting that they change to civilian clothing...
Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev's assurance that the 3000 Soviet troops in Cuba would not be converted from a training unit into a combat force was a "modest, but nonetheless important achievement" for Carter, Dominguez said...
Puopolo, a starting defensive cornerback for Harvard, died Dec. 17, 1976, from injuries sustained during a scuffle in Boston's Combat Zone 31 days earlier. He had been celebrating the end of the football season with teammates...
September 1979 may well go down in diplomatic history as the month that the U.S. Government went a little bit haywire. Both the Executive and Legislative branches have overreacted to the belated discovery of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba and have severely jeopardized rational consideration of the SALT II treaty. The events of the past four weeks provide a case study in the breakdown of constitutional process whereby the Administration and Congress are supposed to be partners in statesmanship...
Contrary to assurances that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance had already given the Senate, the agency concluded that about one-third of the 6,000 to 9,000 Russians on duty in Cuba are combat troops rather than advisers and technicians...