Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racism is not to engage in this sort of obscene form of racial McCarthyism, but to acknowledge a real problem that we all must try to deal with. Name-calling, character assassination, and tying partisan politics up with issues that are fundamentally more important only degrade the effort to combat racial bigotry. By feeding these divisive fires, Boyd's cartoon only makes the problem worse. Christopher A. Ford...
Still, many of the contras say they are making progress. "We used to have to battle daily," said a veteran guerrilla named Hernan, recalling combat two years ago. "The Sandinistas were always on top of us, attacking. Now they are giving up territory, and we are the ones on the offensive." Guerrillas say they have downed five Sandinista battle helicopters in the past two months with Soviet-made SA-7 missiles bought with U.S. aid, a claim the Sandinistas deny. One rebel said contra forces in the area have 40 of the Soviet-made antiaircraft weapons and expect delivery...
Marine recruits are supposed to run no farther than five miles, and jogging routes are lined with emergency telephones and water hoses. Regulations require that ambulances be present during all activities involving "heights or fights." As three platoons of recruits in San Diego waited to begin close- combat training last week, a drill instructor complained, "We can't start without an ambulance present...
Aside from Grenada, the last time the Marines launched an amphibious assault under combat conditions was during the Korean War, when General Douglas MacArthur chose them for the Inchon landing. Marine strategists insist that the Corps retains a vital role in modern warfare. Lieut. General Alfred Gray, who commands the Fleet Marine Force (Atlantic), admits, "You'll never see staged assaults like Iwo Jima or Tarawa again." But Gray, who is thought to be one of the leading candidates to succeed Marine Commandant P.X. Kelley, adds, "Our mission is sustained power projection. For power to be sustained, it must come...
...Marines have begun to imitate some of the top-heavy characteristics of the other services: 30 years ago there was one enlisted Marine officer for every two grunts; now the ratio is 1 to 1. Less than one-third of the troops in each Marine division now have combat jobs, and the ratio of desk jobs to field jobs for lieutenant colonels is 9 to 1. Because of this shift from "tooth" to "tail," what is supposed to be a streamlined strike force resembles the rest of the military bureaucracy...