Word: combatting
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Ever since the Vietnam War, many military officers have contended that U.S. troops in combat face two foes: one on the battlefield, the other in the news media. In this view, reporters are more interested in probing for contradictions between official statements and the testimony of footsore grunts than in emphasizing any underlying unity of purpose. They seek out graphic images of suffering, invading the privacy of victims and allowing emotion to obscure larger concerns of national policy. Above all, they may be so skeptical about war in general, or a current war in particular, that they do not root...
...likelihood of combat has risen in the Persian Gulf, where battlefield conditions and terrain would make military assistance a necessity for reporters, distrust between the brass and the press has blazed anew. Despite repeated contacts with news executives who believe they made their concerns clear, the Pentagon has expanded its proposed ground rules for the behavior of journalists on any gulf battlefield from one page to six. Even after a promise of revision following a heated session with about 60 senior Washington journalists late last week, the Pentagon seems firm in its intention: to impose unprecedented restrictions on where reporters...
...have been in war. I have known the terror of combat. And I tell you this with all my heart: I don't want there to be war ever again. I am determined toabsolutely everything possibile in the search fora peaceful resolution to this crisis--but only ifthe peace is genuine, if it rests on principle,not appeasement," he continued...
Whatever might have happened behind the scenes, onstage Gorbachev moved abruptly to the right. He proposed constitutional changes, which he hopes to ram through the Congress of People's Deputies, that would further strengthen presidential authority. He announced plans to form civilian vigilante groups to combat black markets and profiteering, and put the KGB in charge of monitoring the distribution of foreign food. Most striking, he sacked Vadim Bakatin, the moderate Interior Minister, and replaced him with a two-man team: Boris Pugo, former chief of the Latvian KGB, as minister; and General Boris Gromov, an officer often said...
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney had conceded before Waller piped up that not all the troops would be "combat ready" by mid-January. But Cheney did not suggest that this should force a postponement of any offensive; Waller...