Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rahman is no rabid nationalist. He has remained on close, friendly terms with the British, has no interest in pie-in-the-sky economic schemes. His political aims are simple: "Food instead of bullets, clothing instead of uniforms, houses instead of barracks.'' His new nation has a combat army of only seven battalions and an air force so small that the pilots often have trouble finding a fourth for bridge. "My ambition is not mighty Malaysia," says Abdul Rahman, "but happy Malaysia...
Those backing the bill hope to combat unemployment by teaching the Corps volunteers useful trades while they are enrolled. Republican Congressional leaders have said that the measure does not lay enough emphasis on job training, and called for a different approach to the problem of joblessness among teenagers. Members of both Corps would have to be between...
...line" cadets, however, question the need for a summer version of Leadership Lab. During the summer of their junior year cadets must attend what amounts to a month of boot camp. The basic justification for subjecting a cadet to "Summer Training Unit" is that it prepares him for a combat situation in which few cadets, particularly the academically minded, will ever find themselves. Most of this year's seniors, while admitting a certain irrelavancy of summer camp, considered it a valuable test of emotional stability under high pressure. They objected, however, to the Air Force's taking a month...
...South Pacific island of Bougainville, a Japanese bullet came within a couple of corpuscles of ending his life at 25. A Marine first lieutenant, Freeman was leading a combat patrol of about 30 men through thick, enemy-rife jungle. From behind a tree about 40 ft. away, a Japanese soldier shot Freeman in the jaw. The bullet ripped through his throat, passing between the jugular vein and the carotid artery. Doctors doubted whether Freeman would ever be able to talk normally again, but he went through a prolonged course of speech therapy and, being an exceedingly determined man, developed into...
...peers that: 1) the U.S. is keeping close watch on vessels outbound from Cuba to other Latin American ports; 2) the U.S. will interfere with any such ships carrying arms or troops; 3) the U.S. will send, to any Central American nations that request it, enough military force to combat Communist subversion...