Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former commander of the 183rd Combat Engineer Battalion, which the film says helped liberate Buchenwald, says his want visited that camp only after it had been liberated. And another former member of the 183rd says he cannot remember precisely when he arrived at the camp...
...Clintonites did see trouble coming. Following the election, Clinton deputized Washington lawyer John Holum to consult with military officials during the transition about how best to lift the ban during the first 30 days of the term "with minimum disruption to combat effectiveness." Working through intermediaries was Clinton's first mistake, says Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, who opposes gays in the military. "A smarter scenario would have been to ask ((the Chiefs)) down to Little Rock during the transition, bring up the subject and say, 'Look, I made this commitment, help me work my way through this.' Instead...
...both the BSA and Hillel agree with Epps that interest among undergraduates seems high, despite lack of student sponsorship and recent controversy about the film's historical accuracy. According to an article in The New Republic, many of the soldiers involved in the 761st Tank Battalion and the 183rd Combat Engineer Battalion said their units were not involved in the liberation of Dachau on Buchenwald. The film says soldiers from those battalions were involved in liberating those specific camps...
...article, Jeffrey Goldberg, the New York bureau chief of The forward, a weekly Yiddish newspaper, cites the commanders of the 761 st Infantry Division and the 183rd Combat Engineer Battalion as saying their units were nowhere near Dachau and Buchenwald, camps which the filmmakers say the Black units helped liberate...
Gwathmey said she hopes the results of her research will be used to combat the effects of heart disease. "The research is definitely cutting edge," she said...