Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news organization has embraced this ethic more enthusiastically than Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today. Credited with one of the industry's best records for hiring and promoting minorities and women at its 88 daily newspapers, Gannett has mounted a campaign to combat what Charles Overby, the vice president for news, calls "the insidious stereotyping that tends to take place by white male managers...
After the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by the cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes last July, a Pentagon investigation concluded that combat stress caused the ship's crew to mistake the civilian jetliner, carrying 290 passengers, for an Iranian fighter jet. Last week a panel of experts convened by the International Civil Aviation Organization reached a different verdict: the tragedy could have been averted if the American warship had been better prepared to communicate with commercial aircraft over the Persian Gulf...
Gorbachev's figures do not quite add up, since manpower in the divisions he intends to demobilize appears to exceed 50,000. There are an estimated 585,000 Soviet troops in the three nations, so shrinkage would be only 8.5%. These reductions would have little impact on combat effectiveness or the Soviet army's intimidating effect on the occupied nations...
From the same area, as well as from the European part of the U.S.S.R., 800 combat aircraft and 8,500 artillery systems will be withdrawn...
While the Warsaw Pact would maintain a solid numerical advantage in combat planes (8,250 vs. 3,977 for NATO), the West's fighters and assault aircraft are considered better at providing support for ground troops. The Soviet pullback of roughly 10% of the Warsaw Pact's European-theater aircraft, while not large, would signal a shift toward a defensive stance. The cut in artillery would be a hefty 20% slash in existing Warsaw Pact firepower along the central front. But the total cut is less significant; the Soviet bloc could still field some 34,900 artillery pieces, mortars...