Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected, he will organize a united front to combat violent crime, Riegle said. As part of his campaign organization, he said, is setting up an advisory panel to study such problems as the need for remedial education for high school dropouts and the possibility of state or local compensation for victims of crimes...
...based, Collins asserted, on the mistaken idea that the bill is legislating a moral position on birth control. The bills' support contend, instead, that it leaves all voters free to come to their own decision. Collins hopes that widespread circulation of the MPHA petition will be able to combat this fear of voter disapproval in two ways. It will indicate considerable statewide support from an articulate and concerned group, and it will also spread information about the bill to the public
...laws to combat crime syndicates, which Johnson called "corporations of corruption." One bill would expand the immunity from prosecution granted to underworld witnesses...
...ashore at Danang. The landing came at a dismally low point in South Viet Nam's long struggle for independence, with the Viet Cong on the offensive and threatening to cut the country in half. The marines were the U.S. reply, the commitment of the first organized American combat units to the ground war in Southeast Asia...
When a German newsman seemed to imply that the buildup in Viet Nam had impaired the U.S. Seventh Army's combat capacity in West Germany, McNamara declared: "It is absolutely untrue, and you are the first that ought to know it. I'm sick and tired of having implications made that we have drawn down the forces in Western Europe when we haven't." McNamara lost his temper again when Cowles publications' Washington Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff, a longtime foe, persistently accused him of dodging questions about an adverse report by the Preparedness Subcommittee that the Pentagon...