Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even a comprehensive SALT agreement, moreover, would not check the Soviet Union's buildup of conventional arms. At sea, for example, the Red Fleet leads the U.S. Navy in major surface combat ships (230, v. 175) and attack submarines (234, v. 78); the onetime unchallenged U.S. superiority exists only in fixed-wing aircraft carriers (13, v. 0). Noted Blechman: "The Navy has had serious problems, and the shipbuilding program, with its long delays and cost overruns, is just one of them." Observed Hyland: "We no longer seem to know what we want the Navy to do: project power ashore...
...find in Daley the spirit of an Irish warrior chieftain. Gaelic legend has a mother feeding the weaning morsel to such an infant with the tip of his father's sword: no better means to teach the proper ways of life and death. To Daley, politics was unremitting combat. Once attained, power could not be shared because sharing would tempt others to become chieftains...
...Airborne Command Post and descended underground to inspect Strategic Air Command headquarters. Last week the President renewed his military travels by helicoptering with his wife Rosalynn from Savannah, Ga., to the deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower to view a series of combat exercises...
Once the fighting is over, the Israelis would probably withdraw some combat troops but leave a large enough force to secure the buffer zone in an effort to reduce the number of terrorist raids from the north. Later, they would probably be prepared to give way to Christian Lebanese soldiers (who oppose the Palestinians), or to U.N. peacekeeping forces, or to a combination of the two. But actually, the Israelis have declared de facto control over a strip of southern Lebanon, and it looks as if they intend to retain some kind of presence. As an Egyptian foreign ministry official...
...reportage and fiction, Ward Just has kept keen watch on the combat of war and politics. Here he extends his reach, trying for a Great American Novel of the heartland. The ingredients of A Family Trust are the stuff of saga. Amos, patriarch of the Rising clan, ascends with his newspaper, the Intelligencer, to the position of flame keeper for his insular Midwest town. His son tries to hold a fort that expands into shopping centers and tract houses. The grandchildren mislay the faith while inheriting the wealth that comes as an ironic dividend of cheapening values...