Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unemployment insurance, aid to housing, etc, but asked that they be broadened. The extent of early welfare legislation is miniscule compared to present budgets, so here we were right. And it is within the power of today's student groups to be right in working for massive programs to combat disease, poverty, illness and insecurity. Our world needs the fervor, enthusiasm, and dedicated effort of which youth seems to be capable to work for good ends, not simply against a bomb which nobody wants but everyone feels they must have. Will Roberts
...program to combat the possibility of an aimless, technically helpless generation in America would certainly be worthy of the long, twilight struggle envisioned by the President. The questions raised by the structural changes in the economy are national in character and scope: they deal with the level of education and vocational training to which the nation must aspire, the composition and purpose of the labor movement, and the uses to which the society will direct its leisure. Certainly the tone of American life will change in the next twenty years, and that change need not imply misery, insecurity...
...current defense budget, but does suggest that the government's ability to expand the volume of job opportunities in the United States is limited by the continuing arms race. The cold war has frozen the economy by restricting the political and financial means with which the government can effectively combat unemployment...
Under the plan, the Army division will have aircraft designed to move into the field with the troops: the Mohawk, a light observation plane equipped for day or night reconnaissance; the Chinook and the Iroquois, heavy-duty helicopters that can carry combat squads; and the Caribou, a 150-m.p.h. transport plane that can haul up to 32 men. The choppers will be armed with machine guns and 2.75-in. rockets; the Mohawk observation planes may carry conventional bomb racks and napalm as well...
...test, since the Viet Cong have only .3O-cal. machine guns to fire at planes. At that, says the Air Force, the Army has had to call for Air Force help to get out of a number of tight spots. Claiming that their ground support has proved efficient in combat, Air Force brass also cites history, quotes Arrny General Douglas MacArthur as saying in 1951: "The support that our tactical air has given to our ground troops in Korea has perhaps never been equaled in the history of modern...