Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...painted faces" -- so named for the greasepaint that has become a recurring rebel trademark -- was a quickly resolved affair. After Menem ordered the army to retake the captured military facilities, loyalists and rebels exchanged small- arms fire for the better part of a day. Cars and buses in the combat zone were riddled with bullet holes. Eventually Menem told the mutineers at army headquarters that if they did not surrender, he would order the building bombed. Shortly afterward they gave...
...Bush Administration, there are two tense face-offs in the Middle East crisis. The other one is in Washington. There the White House is skirmishing with congressional Democrats over a constitutional question: Can President Bush commit U.S. forces to combat without first gaining the consent of Congress...
...things are the same. "Soldiers waiting for action are usually alike: anxious, annoyed, bored," recalls Tokyo bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand, who spent two years in Vietnam and later reported on the war between Iran and Iraq. Geographically, though, the two places are worlds apart. Senior correspondent James Wilde observed combat scenes for six years in Vietnam, "spending hours floundering around in swamps, up to the waist in water." Says Wilde, who is based in Rome: "Give me the desert anytime." The jungle terrain and guerrilla nature of the war in Southeast Asia made for unconventional fighting, recalls correspondent James Willwerth...
...troops on the front line, many of whom are thought to be ill-trained draftees who know they are cannon fodder, fight hard or give up quickly? For that matter, how battle ready are American soldiers, hardly any of whom below the rank of colonel have ever been in combat...
...initial targets will be the Iraqi air force and its bases -- perhaps 20 of them, plus around 60 missile sites that will have to be taken out. Iraq is believed to have 400 to 500 operational combat planes, including 30 to 35 French-built Mirage fighters and 110 to 140 Soviet-made MiGs -- all first- line, modern warplanes equipped with air-to-air missiles and some electronic-warfare gear. Some might be destroyed on the ground, but a good many would probably get into the air to give battle. One estimate is that they would be able to shoot down...