Word: combats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which human lives were willingly spent for tactical ends, this mission will be characterized by a desire to establish peace with the same zero-casualty figure the Pentagon managed during the air war. So, Marines in Kosovo are on hair-trigger alert. "There's a big difference between combat and peacekeeping, and it can switch quickly from one to the other," says Sergeant Major John Sekula, the Marine battalion landing team's top enlisted man. "The biggest thing we have to focus on is the individual Marine's restraint--how he reacts to the looks, the taunting, the throwing...
...control. Say good-bye to any change in gun control in the near future. By a 280-to-147 vote Friday, the House of Representatives decided to reject the entire raft of gun control measures the chamber had managed to slog through, sometimes in partisan hand-to-hand parliamentary combat, during the week?s blazing shootout over firearms. Democrats voted against the final bill because of a key NRA-backed provision -- approved by the slimmest of majorities -- which would have weakened existing restrictions on gun-show sales. They were joined by a group of conservative Republicans who objected to almost...
...American lives lost in combat during the Gulf...
...cautious face publicly, warning that it was premature to claim victory. Still, several times in private he dashed to a secure phone line to get the latest, increasingly optimistic assessments from his national security adviser, Leon Fuerth. As Oliver North told his conservative radio listeners last week, the combat "may be ending just in time to save Al Gore's hide...
...beret were born long after his demise and have only the sketchiest knowledge of his goals or his life. Gone is the generous Che who tended wounded enemy soldiers, gone is the vulnerable warrior who wanted to curtail his love of life lest it make him less effective in combat and gone also is the darker, more turbulent Che who signed orders to execute prisoners in Cuban jails without a fair trial...