Word: combatative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gentlest military strike in modern history. In three Puma helicopters and two Hercules C-130 transports, a combined force of 230 British marines and French paratroopers swooped down on the sleepy New Hebrides island of Espiritu Santo. They were armed and ready for combat. But the invading force was greeted with garlands of roses and the curious gaze of 1,000 of the island's anything-but-hostile inhabitants...
...nation's airlines are engaged in their greatest aerial combat ever. It is also their most costly. With cut-rate fares and fierce overcompetition taking the place of missiles and machine guns, the airlines are battling for survival in an ever tougher market. They have become so intent on shooting down one another "that they seem to have forgotten how to make money. Normally late spring and summer are the peak periods for airline profits. Not so this year. Last week as many of the nation's major airlines released their financial results for the second quarter...
...this had been the real thing, the First Brigade would have been in the air within 18 hours of the signal to go. The 82nd, two other Army divisions and one Marine division are the ground combat element of the Rapid Deployment Force. Because paratroopers are able to land anywhere with maximum speed and surprise, the 82nd is always at the ready...
...equal-protection provision of the Fifth Amendment. There was no indication, said the judges, that national objectives required females to be exempted from registration and males alone to sign up. While the court did not deal with the question of whether women should actually be drafted or assigned to combat, it did note that there were already 150,000 female volunteers who "do serve a useful role in the military...
...mobilization effort in the country's war-clouded history. In the space of a year, Hanoi has doubled the size of its regular army to about 60 divisions of some 1 million men. With more than 2.6 million men under arms-many of them in a highly trained, combat-ready militia-Viet Nam has the third largest military force in the world.* Pulling most of its crack divisions out of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia, Hanoi has massed 250,000 to 300,000 troops along its frontier with China. Another invasion by Peking, Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach has warned, would...