Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What support would the anti-Communists in the South be able to muster if they had to compete politically with the National Liberation Front? Would the pacification effort survive another major Communist assault? What are the real prospects for the South Vietnamese army to hold its own without U.S. combat units...
...them to Pueblo's aid. Four fighter-bombers were supposed to be ready in South Korea, but they were armed with nuclear warheads and useless for such a mission. Air Force jets stationed in Japan were unavailable because a status-of-forces agreement prevented their use in any combat mission without the Japanese government's consent. The only U.S. Navy ship in the area was the nuclear aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise, which was cruising 600 miles from Pueblo. But, said Johnson, since Enterprise was based in Japan, her jets were similarly locked to the flight deck...
...adopting the float-glass process that revolutionized glassmaking a decade ago. On the other hand, BSN, which was formed when two firms merged in 1966, had eagerly adopted new management and production techniques under its wiry president, Antoine Riboud, 50, who advocates an aggressive French business policy to combat growing competition from the U.S. and elsewhere...
...combat attacks on the democratic process...
...letter stated that "only more effective action, using better publicity techniques, can make extremism unfashionable." The letter called for a "revolt of the rationally committed" by contacting "various spontaneous local groups that have arisen to combat extremism" and working with these groups to establish "a permanent network...