Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...virtually every poison in jet-age aerial combat, however, there is an antidote. Though the Israeli-developed devices could not cope with the improved missiles, U.S. equipment has a larger number of frequencies. Washington has released more than a hundred ECM pods to Israel, each consisting of a bomblike container 10 ft. long and weighing about 300 lbs., which fits under the wing of a Phantom like an auxiliary fuel tank. Inside each pod are three canisters containing "noisemakers," or jammers, that radiate electromagnetic waves in the same frequencies used by the acquisition, tracking and terminal guidance systems...
...supplied Cambodia with only five T-28 fighter-bombers, medical supplies, boots and uniforms. On a remote island base, however, the Thais are now training a mixed group of 10,000 Thai and 2,000 Cambodian recruits, and there is talk that this division-size force could be combat-ready some time this month. Presumably, the troops could be lifted into action from a string of 20 or 30 helicopter pads that are now being built along the Thai-Cambodian border...
...been in captivity for more than 17 years. Air Force Captain Philip E. Smith was captured while on a reconnaissance mission along the China coast in 1965, and Navy Lieut. Robert J. Flynn was imprisoned after being shot down when his plane strayed across the Chinese border during a combat mission over North Viet Nam in 1967. In addition, Navy Lieut. Joseph Dunn, whose plane was downed off the island of Hainan in 1968, may be a prisoner...
...Nixon Administration has so far failed to heed this call for leadership. In the postinaugural period, the President talked enthusiastically of offering tax incentives to encourage business to combat social problems. That idea has been quietly shelved as too costly and possibly unworkable, and no new idea has taken its place. The Government does have a plethora of programs and subsidies to stimulate low-cost housing, black capitalism, job training and pollution control. But many of the programs are tangled in overlapping bureaucracies, and there is no central office to tell the well-intentioned businessman just what aid is available...
...gets easier. Fortunately, some cops are freshly conscious of the need to overcome their own isolation. Seattle police recently pacified student demonstrators by affixing daffodils to their nightsticks. On Atlanta's Peachtree Street, where police and hippies once tangled, young officers have persuaded young civilians to help combat the use of hard drugs. When the department recently opened a store-front precinct station, officers gamely let two hippies emblazon the plate-glass window with the legend...