Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only two weeks ago, Yeltsin handed responsibility for resolving Chechnya to his ambitious national security chief, Alexander Lebed, who swiftly launched peace talks. Ignoring that, Russia's acting military commander late last Monday gave citizens in Grozny 48 hours to flee before the Russians initiated "large-scale combat operations." As he issued his ultimatum, Lieut. General Konstantin Pulikovsky voiced his firm opinion that the Chechens could be quelled only by "the use of force...
...secret plan to end the Chechnya problem for good but had to talk with President Boris Yeltsin before making it public. And he boldly demanded that Yeltsin get rid of the Moscow official he blamed for Russia's latest bloody disaster in Chechnya, where a week of brutal combat has returned the capital city of Grozny to rebel control...
...spokesman, "is that he should address the problem of terrorism in an appropriate forum." Like what? "Like his meeting with President Mubarak." So what happened then? After seeing the Egyptian leader last Thursday, Dole said, "We discussed a wide range of issues including...what we can do together to combat the threat of terrorism." And that...
...that as terrorists have progressed, creating schemes of ever greater sophistication, deviousness and danger, U.S. airports have remained mired in the past, with preventive measures--such as metal detectors--that were developed in the 1970s. Those worked well for the problem of that era--hijacking--but do little to combat the threats posed by plastique or suicide bombers. "Our security system is not a model that one would hold up with any pride," says Billie Vincent, who was head of FAA security from 1982 to 1986 and now runs a consulting firm...
Okay, so what do I do? Do I just sit back, relax, let old age sneak up behind me and KAPOW!, I'm watching "Matlock?" Do I fight it by regression--dust off my old G.I. Joes and restart the never-ending combat with Cobra? Do I run to stay in place, or as John Cougar Mellencamp put it, "hold on to 16 as long...