Word: combats
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NATO Nightmares. There are now more Soviet combat troops in Central Europe than at any time since 1945. The arrival of 275,000 Soviet soldiers in Czechoslovakia drastically unbalances what for two decades had been a relative parity between the opposing NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. Furthermore, the new Soviet presence along the Bavarian border of Czechoslovakia turns the flank on NATO's ground defenses, erected and maintained to meet an attack across the flat plains of East Germany...
...Gone are traitors of the magnitude of Alger Hiss, witnesses of the eloquence of Whittaker Chambers. Still, today's radical resurgence, thinks Buckley, has created a swarm of lesser subversives who bear close watching. To keep an eye on them, he has started a four-page newsletter, Combat, to be published twice a month...
...came out for putting into effect the radical and expensive proposals of the Kerner commission report. And if necessary, the Democratic platform says, the Government must become the "employer of last resort" of those unable to find work in private industry. The Republicans stressed fiscal responsibility and propose to combat urban problems primarily through private enterprise...
...campaign, but have found his organization in tatters. Since then, Democrats have coalesced to help. Tom Finney, a former Eugene McCarthy aide, arrived to reorganize the campaign. Junior Senator Fred Harris, a Hubert Humphrey lieutenant, became cochairman. There is even a newly formed "Minis for Monroney" to combat the "Bellmon Belles." Yet the latest polls show that Monroney has slipped behind Bellmon by as much as 6%. No Republican ever rates a shoo-in role in Oklahoma. However, unless Harris goes on the national ticket and somehow sweeps the state, Monroney may get to know Oklahoma much better after...
Oppenheimer's military judgment is hard to fault. A Marine reserve officer since World War II, when he led a battalion ashore at Okinawa, he was called up for Korea, returned last May from a combat tour in Viet Nam, and last month pinned on his brigadier general's stars...