Word: combated
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...this referendum's opponents have repeated, the operative word here is choice. But choice for whom? How much choice can there be for a poor woman when the only alternative the state offers is Medicaid-funded abortions? There are many more constructive uses of taxpayers' dollars to combat the unwanted pregancy problem. "The fact remains that in this affluent nation of ours, pregnant cattle and horses receive better health care than pregnant poor women," one pro-life advocate says. "The poor cry out for justice and equality, and we respond with abortion...
...Robertson tried his best to look unruffled, but the charge rankled. Did the famed televangelist, as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in 1951, ask his father, then a U.S. Senator from Virginia, to use his pull to help the young man avoid combat duty in Korea? After fielding reporters' questions about the allegation, Robertson last week launched a counterattack. He filed two libel suits for $35 million each in Washington federal court against his accusers, former Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey Jr. and Democratic Congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana. "I may become a candidate for President...
...began last summer, when Jacobs heard Robertson make a speech supporting military action by U.S.-backed rebels in Nicaragua. Jacobs thought McCloskey, a Korean War veteran who had been assigned to the same unit as Robertson, had once singled out the evangelist as a hawkish conservative who had avoided combat service. Jacobs, who served as a combat infantryman with the Marines in Korea, asked McCloskey to provide greater detail...
...continue on to Korea. "My single distinct memory," McCloskey wrote, "is of Pat, with a big grin on his face, standing on the dock . . . saying something like, 'So long, you guys -- good luck,' and telling us that his father (Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson) had got him out of combat duty." Several months later, according to McCloskey, Robertson and five other officers who had been pulled off the Breckinridge with him were reassigned to Korea. McCloskey wrote that Robertson had served as "division liquor officer," flying alcoholic beverages in from Japan for his contingent...
...Robertson's office, he did leave the U.S.S. Breckinridge in Kobe, but was later transferred to Korea, where he served at 1st Marine Division headquarters as an assistant adjutant for six months. In his 1972 autobiography Shout It from the Housetops, Robertson fleetingly mentions his service as a "Marine combat officer in Korea"; at a press conference last month where he vehemently denied McCloskey's charge, Robertson said his duties included transporting classified codes between Korea and Japan. But he did not claim any battle experience, and since then the words combat duty have been dropped from his official...