Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compromise Course. McNamara apparently opposes direct commitment of U.S. troops at present to combat the Viet Cong Communists. Back in Washington at week's end, he delivered a 1-hr. 15-min. verbal report to President Johnson, prepared a long written memorandum as well. Pentagon sources predicted that McNamara, while not discarding the possibility of some form of harassment against North Viet Nam, such as hit-and-run raids by Vietnamese guerrillas, was expected to urge that Washington simply step up its logistical support...
...major problems facing the new government are the recent business recession and the nation's creaky, corrupt bureaucracy. To combat the first, Mansur intends to create work by rebuilding 1½ million mudbrick houses inhabited by 75% of Iran's population. As for the bureaucracy, Mansur says he will close down unneeded departments and fire surplus civil servants after giving them lump-sum severance...
...latter work, Arevalo has created the concept of "anti-Kommunism,"--by which he means those policies used to combat social reform in the Latin republics. He describes the structural anti-Kommunism of the "Police Rulers," the anti-Kommunism of American capitalists, and the more sophisticated, determined anti-Kommunism of the organized Catholic Church, claiming that all work together to prevent social evolution. He points out that the United States' twentieth century diplomacy in Latin America has not recognized the difference between the threat of international Communism and the necessary reforms labelled...
...Tihmar must be something of a genius. He has enabled the production numbers to overcome musical, lyrical, and logical problems with superb choreography, and his pace works furiously to combat the tedium of the story. Francis Mahard's sets and Lawrence Whitman's lighting are completely professional, and Lewis Smith carries through the visual excellence with ingenious costumes...
Swarthmore,* which last week began celebrating its centennial year, was founded by the liberal Hicksite Quakers to combat "a dead level of mediocrity in the education of our children." For a while it was best known as "the Quaker matchbox," a 300-acre playground for sowing Quaker oats and finding Quaker mates. But ever since the 1920s, when pioneering President Frank Aydelotte set the matchbox on intellectual fire, Swarthmoreans have won all sorts of academic honors...