Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...physical strength can give us." The Pentagon responds that it will take no action that weakens the nation's defenses, and General David C. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is quick to say: "I don't see women in a foxhole in combat right now." There are other unofficial limitations too. Says Jones: "I don't foresee a woman ending up in my job, at least not in my lifetime...
...There's a lot of resistance to us, but we can do more than some of the puny guys." Retired Major General John Singlaub, former chief of staff of the Eighth Army in South Korea, argues, however, that "it's a silly idea to put women in combat. To say that they are physiologically equal to men is to defy reality...
Bootcamp. Sweat and grunts. Live grenades, M-16 rifles, obstacle courses, combat practice. Cliffs, swamps, minefields, foxholes, helicopter pads. No place for women? Nowadays they undergo the rigors of military training right alongside the men. TIME's Joelle Attinger joined the Marines at Quantico, Va., for part of a three-day mock war, the final exercise of 21 weeks of training completed by 239 male and 15 female second lieutenants. Her report...
After three days on maneuvers, Duden drives to her home in Alexandria, Va., where she lives with her two stepdaughters and her husband, a former combat artist in Viet Nam who now paints full time. Duden's work pays off: she is the first woman to achieve "honor graduate" rating at the Marine's tactical training course. In January she and her family will be sent to Okinawa...
...burrow of his own accord or was actually pushed out by the winner (who invariably turned out to be the larger beetle). Thus, Palmer reports in Nature, the minotaur's horns, and perhaps similar horns in other beetles, seem to have been evolved for only one purpose: combat...