Word: fighting
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Born in Vienna, Rubinger fled to British-occupied Palestine in 1939, after Hitler annexed Austria. During World War II, Rubinger returned to Europe to fight the Nazis with Britain's Jewish Brigade. Along the way, two things happened that changed his life. He met his future wife Anni, a concentration- camp survivor who is a TIME picture researcher. Almost as important, he picked up his first camera, an Argus-35, and quickly decided that taking pictures should be his career...
...invasion," had prompted Washington to respond with paratroopers and infantry. There was "no intention" of sending U.S. troops into combat, assured the White House. Officially, the soldiers were there for a "readiness exercise" intended to show U.S. support for the Honduran government -- a rather dubious claim, since the fighting took place in a remote, uninhabited area and posed no threat to Honduran security. The real aim was to demonstrate that the Reagan Administration was not about to abandon the embattled contras. The clear, if unspoken, message to the U.S. public: if Congress refused to fund the contras' fight against...
Since at least World War II, Soviet doctrine has placed extraordinary emphasis on offense, specifically on the use of massive tank and artillery formations as well as swift-moving mechanized infantry units. The theory was born partly out of the determination never again to have to fight a war on home soil. While a switch to a defensive strategy could simply signify a shift of resources, with more being devoted to protection against attack, it might also mean that Moscow is determined to reduce overall military expenditures, perhaps as part of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's drive to speed...
...opposition drive, supported if not engineered by the U.S., to force Noriega from power. "This explodes the myth that the armed forces are united behind Noriega," said a knowledgeable Panamanian in Washington. "Now he can't be sure of anyone's loyalty. The thugs have started to fight among themselves...
...recent decision to deploy 5000 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne in Honduras in response to the Nicaraguan invasion highlights these problems. At hearings before the Senate last week, Secretary of State George Shultz said, "It's important that people know the United States will fight." The Administration properly used military force in Honduras to bolster Tegucigalpa's morale and to deter further Nicaraguan incursions across the border. In essence, we stuck out the American chin and dared the Sandinistas to hit us--and it worked, as they withdrew this week without destroying the main contra supply cache...