Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...village collectives. "What makes developing countries really backward is their inability to benefit from modern science and technology," Mengistu told TIME in an interview last year. "People live in isolation on hilltops . . . It is only when you have peasants together in villages that they can benefit from . . . technology to combat difficult conditions...
...Soviet military mission in Nicaragua (identified as a "General Zaitsev") and his Cuban counterpart discussed a five-year military plan extending through 1995. Among Miranda's documents is an agreement outlining the plan, which specifies that Nicaragua will receive twelve MiGs, an additional squadron of Mi-24 combat choppers, and medium-range surface-to-air missiles. Miranda notes that the Sandinistas could use the MiGs to intercept supply flights to the U.S.-backed contras. The Reagan Administration has repeatedly warned that the delivery of MiGs to Nicaragua would be unacceptable and has hinted that it might provoke an armed...
This season, Yale had the distinction of losing to Dartmouth at home for the first time ever. Meanwhile, Brown dropped a 3-2 squeezer to Army, which plays hockey in combat boots...
...following weeks I led the crusade to combat dandruff by installing shampoo vending machines in the houses. We fought untidyness with comb dispensers, scurvy with Vitamin C dispensers, acne with Clearasil dispensers. We hired nurses to stand ready at all houses 24 hours a day, ready to fit women with diaphragms in an emergency. Next to the nurse was stationed a barber ready at all times to sell emergency haircuts to anyone who was unable to make it to the Square...
...testing. Last week prospective immigrants to the $ U.S. joined military personnel, blood donors and other groups now required to submit to AIDS testing. The commission tabled discussion on AIDS education until February in spite of widespread agreement among health professionals that educational programs are the most effective way to combat the disease. The panel's recommendations will have to strike a balance between acceptable government-sponsored initiatives and what it has called "personal responsibility." Watkins and his team have made a credible beginning, but AIDS has had a considerable head start...