Word: combating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bureau of Land Management used almost 2,000 men to combat the fires. Six hundred men equipped with bulldozers, helicopters and Army personnel carriers struggled to contain the West Fork holocaust by bulldozing a line in its path. Smoke jumpers, some of them imported from Montana, parachuted into the forests with digging equipment; six converted B-25 bombers dropped chemical retardants on the fires. 150 Years to Grow. Normally, rain controls the blazes that start each summer, but this has been an extraordinarily dry season for Alaska. Chicken, for example, has had no rain since early May. Though lightning started...
...Systems Command itself-with "authority to plan, budget, program and control the research and development effort of the Air Force"-ten years before becoming its first chief in 1961. Under him, the command managed a wide assortment of complex programs and projects that ranged from aerospace medical research to combat and transport aircraft, from an automated ground guidance system for interceptor operations to military communications satellites. The Systems Command also worked out administrative techniques, now being widely copied by other Government agencies, for shepherding new technical projects from the planning stage to full-fledged operation...
...bulge directly across from Formosa. Surprisingly enough, there are no more than 200,000 soldiers along the entire southern rim of China, including the borders with Viet Nam and Laos. Of the 50,000 Chinese troops in North Viet Nam, the bulk are cadre and support troops; no major combat units are stationed outside Chi na proper...
...post more than 500 signs, distribute more than 120,000 handbills. Moreover, in each electoral district, all local candidates must campaign together, shaking hands and making speeches only as a group. The U.S., too, is guarding against any appearance of unduly influencing the outcome: all U.S. personnel except combat troops in the field will be confined to quarters for 34 hours during the actual voting-and the combat troops must stay well clear of all polling areas...
Until last month there was not even a law against desertion. Now the Ky government has decreed that a deserter will be sentenced to five years in a labor battalion attached to a combat unit. A second offense will mean ten years, and a third death. Advance warning of the decree began last April, and the regular-army desertion rate has already begun to drop, from 24 per 1,000 men in March to twelve by the end of July. Moreover, many classified as deserters in the past had simply gone home to join the army unit closest...