Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Middle East was genuine enough, the original decision to take the trip had contained elements of routine flag showing and pre-election headline grabbing. Now the excursion assumed an air of urgency. The fleet he visits will have just returned from action stations where it was poised for combat. Conversations in Rome, Belgrade, Madrid and London will have less small talk, more serious discussion about where matters stand in the Middle East and between East and West...
...help rebuild Western Europe, and idealistically hoped to forge another superpower out of a unification of much of that continent. Soon the State Department's Dean Acheson was pushing the decision to aid Greece and Turkey against Communist subversion as part of the Truman Doctrine. U.S. failure to combat Communism there, he proclaimed, could "open three continents to Soviet penetration?like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe...
...Jordanian flyers had the sky almost to themselves. The Syrian air force never showed up, probably because Damascus was worried about Israel and was also feeling pressure from Moscow to withdraw. Furthermore, once its planes entered into combat, Syria could no longer disclaim responsibility for the invasion. But from time to time a flight of eight Israeli Mirages showed up over the battlefield near Irbid. The Israeli jets took no part in the battle; they were there to take pictures of the fighting-as were a number of U.S. photo-reconnaissance planes. An Israeli source said that the Mirages were...
...advocacy of crime, sabotage or violence, the act was challenged by Harris and declared unconstitutional by a U.S. district court because the broad language of the statute limits free speech. On appeal, the state argues, among other things, that the old law should be preserved in order to combat the new activities of Black Panthers, S.D.S. members and the American Nazi Party. Another First Amendment case involves a New York City art-gallery owner who was convicted for displaying artist Marc Morrel's sculpted concept of the American flag as a male sex organ. Although the court...
...Algerian intelligence agents they had been holding. For its part, the U.S., which had dispatched Sixth Fleet ships with 1,500 battle-ready Marines to the Eastern Mediterranean when the planes were skyjacked, added more ships to the task force. Most notably, the helicopter carrier Guam, with combat Marines aboard, sailed from Norfolk naval base to join the fleet...