Word: combate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire scenario, of course, is theoretical. Dr. Jerome Wiesner of M.I.T., who was John Kennedy's science adviser, notes that Sentinel is "untestable" under anything approaching simulated combat conditions. The warheads have been detonated in underground explosions, to be sure, and the missiles that carry them have been launched, but the 1963 nuclear Test-Ban Treaty prohibits nuclear explosions in space. Even without this veto, it would be fantastically difficult to stage a realistic war game featuring...
...Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn in a gilded, red-curtained hall of Government House. Later in their stay they had an audience with King Bhumibol Adulyadej in his lavishly landscaped palace. The Thais discussed recent strains in their country's relations with the U.S. and said that efforts to combat Communist insurgency in northeast Thailand were, in Thanom's words, having "rather satisfactory" results...
...encourage employment of marginal workers. Ultimately, the best way of reconciling price stability with high employment is to increase labor productivity by means of expanded job training among the semiskilled and the unskilled. Thus Nixon's proposal for giving private enterprise tax incentives for ghetto job training could combat inflation at the same time that it helps serve other social needs...
Frelimo's military operations in Mo zambique reflected these difficulties. The tempo of combat has dropped in recent months, or so the Portuguese claim, but Frelimo's estimated 8,000 well-trained guerrillas (most of them Mozambicans trained in Tanzania and sup ported from that country) are tying down more than 40,000 Portuguese regulars. The major centers of Frelimo activity are in northern Mozambique, where the rebels fully control three districts: the area around Tete, on the Zambezi River in the northwest and on the Mueda plateau in the north...
...Force scientists are conducting further experiments in California to refine their fog-dispersing system, but they say that it has already proved practical under combat conditions in Southeast Asia. Twice, after Air Force planes were forced down and obscured by low-lying cloud banks in enemy-infested territory, rescue helicopters spiraled overhead until they had cleared holes in the clouds. They then lowered lines and rescued the downed pilots, who thus became the first beneficiaries of a novel procedure that Air Force scientists hope will soon become routine...