Word: combated
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Russian defense minister Pavel Grachev is meeting with his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of Defense William Perry in an effort to resolve the issue of whether Russian combat troops will take part in a peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. Yuri Zarakhovich reports from Moscow that the main stumbling blocks involve capital, both economic and political: "Originally, Russia intended to field a division in Bosnia, but the Russian government recognizes that deploying a full division (roughly 20,000 troops) overseas will be too much of a financial strain to the impoverished Russian state. Now, they talk in terms of a couple of regiments...
Today's Western leaders were all too willing to allow Bosnia to be carved up into ethnic enclaves--a sure recipe for future combat. Only the fierce intransigence of the Bosnian Muslims stopped the disastrous Vance-Owen "peace plan" from giving the Serbs nearly everything they wanted. When will the nations of the free world learn that one cannot buy peace from the merchants of tyranny...
TIME: The Islamic term jihad can refer to a spiritual struggle or physical combat...
...quest for solidarity and brotherhood to combat 400 years of oppression, the African-American community has come to see itself as a whole, living as one and achieving as one. This has fostered the identity of a supposed black culture in the African-American community in which, if you don't talk a certain way and don't act a certain way you are considered as trying to act white. A member of the black community must speak in terms of brothers and sisters, as if the whole of the African-American community is one entity, feeling the same emotions...
Members also say they support candidates who will combat liberal attitudes towards family issues and religion...