Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some areas of industry. Three things helped him achieve a defense cut of more than $1 billion. First, many of the crash programs launched when Kennedy entered the White House have now been paid for, including the building up of the Army from eleven flabby divisions to 16 combat-ready units. Second, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's cost-reduction program is expected to trim hundreds of millions from the next budget. Finally, as one Pentagon official put it, "we are over the hump in the funding of the large missile systems...
Figuring that they could frighten the mutineers into submission with lots of noise, the British cut loose with a predawn barrage of blank charges over Colito barracks. As the sleepy mutineers ducked for cover, helicopters fluttered off the flight deck and dropped 60 combat-ready Royal Marine Commandos onto the rebel base...
...already much-eroded value of the dollar. The President was concerned by recent wholesale-price rises and by possible demands for big wage hikes in upcoming labor talks in major industries. Should inflation appear again despite this warning, it will be the job of the Federal Reserve Board to combat it by limiting the money supply-and that possibility last week caused a clash between Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. and his archcritic, Texas Democrat Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee...
...Fink, chief engineer of the MDC, assured the 400 members present that there was nothing to worry about. After Fink spoke, Bernays--a new resident of the city and the country's leading public relations man--denounced the MDC representative as "a stooge" and urged an aggressive attack to combat the building of the underpasses. At this meeting were laid the seeds of the Citizens' Emergency Committee...
...exiled Congolese extremists plotting against the central government. There, Mulele presumably obtained funds and equipment from Red Chinese and Soviet agents, for when Congo police came upon Mulele's outposts, they found copies of Mao Tse-tung's handbook on guerrilla warfare, Soviet-made cameras, a combat radio, homemade gasoline bombs made from beer bottles-and two Russian fur hats. It was just such subversive activities as this that led Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula to expel Russia's entire 100-man mission from Leopoldville last November. Clearly, Moscow's men were still not ready to give...