Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same people who make a big issue of Michael Dukakis' veto of a law requiring people to recite the Pledge of Allegiance -- implying, though never saying, that this casts doubt on Dukakis' patriotism -- insist that it is somehow a cheap shot to ask what Dan Quayle's evasion of combat service in 1969 says about the boisterous hawkish values he professes to hold today. It's not hard to imagine what Republican hatchet men like Bush Campaign Manager Lee Atwater would do with this issue if the shoe were on the other foot...
...Earlier this month, a huge munitions dump near Kalagay was blown up, reportedly claiming hundreds of Soviet lives. Last week Najibullah's enemies scored a propaganda coup when his brother Sediqullah Rahi, 37, turned up in Washington to announce his defection and call his brother "mentally deranged." Though heavy combat has not touched the capital, Kabul, the sights and sounds of war intrude almost daily. At the airport planes follow a narrow corkscrew flight path down to the runway rather than risk flying in low over hostile territory. Day in and day out, the crump of outgoing artillery echoes through...
...generation. Attitudes and behavior that were commonplace in the late 1960s -- about drugs, sex, military service -- are now viewed with post- factum moralism through the prism of two decades of cultural revisionism. By 1969 millions of American men of draft age would have gone to great lengths to avoid combat in the most unpopular war in the nation's history. Is an entire generation of draft avoiders, who stayed within the law, barred from high political office? Or is there a special standard for hawkish conservatives, who are automatically maligned as hypocrites if they did not then put their rifles...
...know the specifics of that." That same evening, Quayle told the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour that his father James also "certainly could have called people." But perhaps Quayle's most questionable assertion is one that he has clung to from the outset: that a desire to avoid combat played no role in his eagerness to enter the Indiana Guard...
Captain Will C. Rogers III ordered two missiles launched at the Airbus, a Navy board of inquiry concluded, for two reasons only: the plane was heading directly toward his ship in a combat situation, and it had not responded to twelve radio demands that it identify itself. Thus it had to be considered hostile. In a 53-page unclassified version of a 1,000-page report, the Pentagon admitted that the Iranian aircraft was not descending toward the Vincennes or emitting military identifying signals, as the Navy originally claimed...