Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis can strike hard at these redoubts from the air, flying in French supersonic Mirage bombers and Skyhawk attack planes recently bought in the U.S. During the Sinai drive, Israel relied on only a few squadrons of French Mysteres for air protection. Now it has some 500 combat jets-four times as many as Syria. It can transport its troops in helicopters. It can roll up 160-mm. mortars and modified Shermans with 105-mm. guns so accurate that they knocked out three of Syria's Russian-made tanks across the border two weeks...
...massive power failures, tougher safety precautions for natural-gas pipelines, development of educational television. He urged legislation to outlaw "all wiretapping, public and private, except when the security of the nation itself is at stake." Another unexpected recommendation was Johnson's plea for an "all-out effort to combat crime." The President expounded on the subject for four fervent minutes, devoting more detail to the subject than any other single item except the war. He outlined a "Safe Streets and Crime Control Act" that would offer federal grants to local governments to help pay for statewide "master plan" crime...
...problem of controlling the urban environment was high on nearly every Governor's list of concerns. In Ohio, Republican James Rhodes, who had not shown much concern for the cities during his first term, set up a cabinet-level Office of Urban Affairs, promised action to combat air and water pollution...
Fading Away. Assigning top priority to making Saigon secure, the U.S. last month committed three combat battal ions to Operation Rang Dong, a long-range, large-scale drive that sent 2,500 U.S. troops against Viet Cong forces operating in the three provincial districts south and east of the city. Last week, to clear the Communists out of the area to Saigon's north, American forces launched the largest offensive of the war to date, sending 28 battalions and 34 batteries of artillery into the 25-sq.-mi. wedge known as the Iron Triangle, a notorious Communist strong hold...
Asia. Already combatting Communist terrorism on its remote northeastern frontier, Thailand announced that it would soon become the sixth fighting ally of the U.S. in Viet Nam.* It has already begun to gather the 1,000-man combat battalion of Royal Thai army volunteers who will enter the Viet Nam fray sometime within the next six months. At the same time, Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman admitted that Thailand has been "allowing U.S. troops to utilize our military installations and facilities...