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Brian Mitchell, author of Weak Link: The Feminization of the American Military, argues that the use of female troops in Panama proved nothing. "The sorts of things they were doing could be done by a twelve-year-old with a rifle," he says. He and other critics contend that women are not capable of performing critical battlefield functions: women Marines, for example, are not allowed to throw live grenades because the corps does not believe they can toss them far enough to avoid injury. But recent Army studies indicate that women's physical strength develops rapidly during training...
Scheme Z, which state Transportation officials contend is the only feasible way to complete the Central Artery project, has been severely critized by environmental groups and city officials in Cambridge and Boston. Opponents of the project here contend that it would simply transfer the current unsightly Artery structure from Boston to Cambridge, creating a host of environmental problems in the process...
...students contend that the suit is aculmination of activity designed to pressure theschool into hiring more women and minority facultymembers...
...charge of Soviet expansionism -- but he did so in the final battles of World War II, not as a prelude to World War III. The Red Army had filled the vacuum left by the collapsing Wehrmacht. By the early 1950s, any Kremlin warmonger would have to contend with a Western Europe that was already firmly back on its feet and therefore no pushover, and also with an American doctrine warning that Soviet aggression would trigger nuclear retaliation against the U.S.S.R...
Such tactics, activists contend, are the only way to jolt the public's fickle attention back to the AIDS epidemic. "A lot of the AIDS stories are old news, so we have to be enticing to make reporters cover them," says Pat Christen, executive director of the mainstream San Francisco AIDS Foundation. As for vandalism, ACT UP member Mark Kostopoulos declares, "It's easier to scrape off paint than raise the dead...