Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon once said it needed only 20 B-2s. ``With 20, I can sustain bomber operations over an extended period of time,'' General John Loh, head of the Air Combat Command, told Congress three years ago. Legislators were skeptical, threatening to pay for only 15, but they were eventually convinced. Today, however, B-2 advocates in the defense industry, on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon are lobbying for 20 more of the Stealth bombers. Seven former Defense Secretaries have urged President Clinton to buy more B- 2s because, they wrote in a Jan. 4 letter...
...seen as contributing to the wrecking of the peso and the loss of billions of dollars around the world. Whatever the global reaction, in Chiapas the small band of rebels has reason to be awed at the impact of its efforts. Army units were rushed in not only to combat the rebels but also to help improve the life of peasants by building clinics, schools and roads. Government public works projects picked up speed. President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon even resumed negotiations. Reacting to those talks, guerrilla leader Comandante Tacho may be forgiven if he sounds a bit smug...
...false report from a Russian news agency that Moscow had shot down a Western combat missile touched off a brief international crisis today, as several European countries and the U.S. scrambled for explanations. The report by Interfax, a Russian news agency, cited an unidentified military source reporting that a missile launched from northern Europe was destroyed at 10:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EST). The killer missile turned out to be a NASA-funded research rocket, launched from Oslo, Norway, to study the Northern lights. "We are a little puzzled by the report," said Erik Lanke, spokesman for the Norwegian...
...next presidential election for a leader who will protest more vigorously the feeble overall reforms of the present government; who will express the hopes of an exhausted people for a better life, stability, law and order; and who will infuse the military with new faith in its combat potential. This leader might be Zhirinovsky or General Alexander Lebed, commander of the 14th Army in Trans-Dniestr, who is popular for his role in stopping a bloody war there and for his outspoken criticism of military corruption. Or it could be former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, a onetime combat pilot famous...
...embittered Russian armed forces may one day explode, with dire consequences -- not only for the U.S. but also for the world. American and NATO military bases still encircle Russia, despite declarations about the end of the cold war. The U.S. military budget keeps growing, along with Washington's combat strength. We monitor this closely. Only naive people who do not know Russia might believe that our military will accept the position of second best in the world. We seek to be equal to the strongest. Yeltsin has denied us our most precious professional feeling: a sense of pride...