Word: combating
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...Jersey National Guard Colonel Thomas Griffin said that the airliner was never in danger and his pilots were only trying to identify a plane that should not have been in that sector of airspace, which is often restricted to military planes simulating combat. Transcripts obtained by TIME show that FAA controllers were upset at the cat-and-mouse game they felt the F-16 was playing. "You're supposed to keep your guy away from my guy," a New York controller griped to a Navy controller in Virginia, "and it's not looking like it's working that...
...Mentavlos from the Citadel disturbing [SOCIETY, Jan. 27]. The two claimed sexual harassment and vicious hazing, and it is hard to comprehend that people would behave so horribly to other human beings. This is just a school, right? It's not as if lives were at stake or actual combat was going on. And even if that were so, I can't understand how washing someone's mouth out with cleanser helps prepare for combat. However, my time in the U.S. Army taught me a lot of things, and the most important lesson was "never quit"--even when faced with...
...Mentavlos from the Citadel disturbing [SOCIETY, Jan. 27]. The two claimed sexual harassment and vicious hazing, and it is hard to comprehend that people would behave so horribly to other human beings. This is just a school, right? It's not as if lives were at stake or actual combat was going on. And even if that were so, I can't understand how washing someone's mouth out with cleanser helps prepare for combat. However, my time in the U.S. Army taught me a lot of things, and the most important lesson was "never quit"--even when faced with...
...groups." People have gone to jail in Germany for displaying a swastika or denying the Holocaust. And most Germans, 70% of whom tell pollsters they think the church should be banned, consider Scientology a subversive organization. "The federal government," says Peter Hausmann, its spokesman in Bonn, "will continue to combat Scientology with all legal means." Kohl snapped that those who signed the letter "don't know a thing about Germany and don't want to know...
...extended an invitation to his ideological opposite to sit in the Gingrich family box in the Speaker's gallery, and it was accepted. The unlikely twosome have been communing since Gingrich's opening-day speech to the House, where the Speaker addressed the need for racial equality, ways to combat drug use and help for the District of Columbia--all issues dear to Jesse's heart. The Rev. Jackson then invited Gingrich onto his talk show, Both Sides, and the two have spoken a few times by telephone. Jackson shrugs off his unorthodox seating plan. "I don't read much...