Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Combat Record. A native of East Afri ca, the Gonaxis has a distinguished battle record against the giant African snail in the islands of the Pacific. On Agiguan in the Marianas, the Gonaxis destroyed within two years nearly a million of the 5,000,000 African snails whose ancestors were brought in as emergency food by the Japanese during World War II. When Clausen heard that 5,000 Gonaxis snails had been rounded up on Agiguan for anti-pest assignments on other islands, he put in a bid for a consignment of 200. Currently being fed on a diet...
This order, which Stilwell later was appalled to discover had been far too harshly carried out by overzealous subordinates, provoked a sitdown strike among the Marauders. As a mobile, one-shot force, they had succeeded brilliantly in harassing action, losing only 424 men in combat while inflicting tremendous casualties on the Japanese. But the static Nhpum Ga siege had broken their spirits-while amoebic dysentery, malaria, scrub typhus and psychoneurosis had put 1,970 men out of action. The Marauders were neither prepared nor equipped for the Myitkyina battle. They were withdrawn in June, disbanded in August...
Ulterior Motives. United Nations observers provisionally put the casualties at 41 Syrian dead, including a number of civilians who lived in a farming settlement in the combat zone. Cost to the Israelis: six dead, ten wounded...
...rebellions against Soviet authority in several small autonomous regions. As the Red army rolled back the Wehrmacht, Serov followed behind, liquidating "collaborationists." He deported to Siberia the entire Chechen-Ingush Republic, the Crimean Tartars, more Ukrainians. For this work he got a second Order of Lenin and a combat commander's Order of Suvorov. By war's end, his work had carried him all the way to Berlin, where he became Stalin's private eye in the Soviet Military Administration. He rounded up German atomic and rocket scientists, watched over Stalin's disgruntled airman son Vasily...
Formerly the Reactionary Club, its purpose is "to combat all forms of liberalism, progressive Republicanism and moderate conservatism." The spokesman denied that it is an outgrowth of the NCC minority, adding that Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '28, professor of History, has been suggested as adviser...