Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Plains; 21 nuclear-powered submarines gliding stealthily through the world's oceans, their 336 slender missiles within range of Soviet targets; 90 B-52 bombers ready to take to the air on 15 minutes' alert; six aircraft-carrier task groups deployed in the world's oceans; five combat-ready divisions positioned in Germany from the Rhine to the East-West frontier...
...Caligor '78, chairman of the committee said Sunday the gynecological clinic is the crucial change RUS is asking for. The clinic might combat long waits for birth control appointments, the problem women cited most frequently in an RUS questionnaire, she said...
...there, we're going to wipe it out," Vellucci said of the alleged criminal activities. "We're talking about Combat Zone activities in Central Square," he added...
Dressed as usual in starched fatigues, combat boots and pistol belt, Castro expressed his admiration for American businessmen ("When they see an opportunity, they don't waste time"), but warned his visitors not to set their hopes too high. Cuba was interested in advanced technology, fertilizer and farm equipment, he said. "But I would be lying to you if I tried to make you think that tomorrow many commercial opportunities will immediately emerge." He argued that the embargo contradicts the Carter Administration's human rights policy because its purpose is to "damage a people." He added...
...Point stands for "Graves Registration." These soldiers are the garbage men of combat. They package their own dead in black plastic bags for shipment back to the States. The men develop their own techniques for dealing with death. Cynical Deacon (Frank Adu) sells photos of the latest enemy kills as if they had been bagged on safari. Simple-minded Straw (Donald Warfield) tends the bodies with gentle piety. Others deal in raw humor or are narcotized by whores. The linchpin of the play is Micah (John Heard), a college boy for whom Nam, as they call it, is agonizing shorthand...