Word: combats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marquand yesterday spoke to two student leadersto combat rumors that the Faculty Council hadvoted down the Verba Report, he said...
ROTC backers came to the meeting prepared to combat activists on several fronts--from issues surrounding the preservation of Harvard's academic integrity to philosophical questions about the role of the military...
...CHARLIE MOPIC. In the jungles of Viet Nam, a lost patrol finds enemies on both sides of combat. But the main character of Patrick Duncan's war movie is a documentary-film camera. Through its unblinking eye, a familiar horror story gains raw immediacy...
...cavernous Senate Caucus Room two years ago, a misty-eyed Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North dazzled millions of TV viewers. Imposing in his sharply creased uniform and Viet Nam combat ribbons, he confidently minimized his role in the Iran-contra scandal, insisting, "I was authorized to do everything that I did." Last week in a Washington federal courtroom, a more subdued North, now a blue-suited civilian with graying hair, took the witness stand and tried to convince twelve jurors that he had been merely a gofer, dutifully carrying out policy set higher in the White House. Surprisingly, the Government...
...Peter Ueberroth's rescue plan must clear some tall obstacles. -- Northwest flies into the combat zone as oilman Marvin Davis pushes an unwelcome...