Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...increasingly troublesome Maoists mounted a daylight raid on Fauchon's the epicurean grocery that boasts the Duke of Windsor among its regular customers. Wearing red handkerchiefs and armed with clubs, the raiders poured into Fauchon and began shoveling foie gras and caviar into the pockets of their combat jackets. The staff organized : a counterattack against the gourmet guerrillas. When the Maoists had been driven out, the floor was awash in vintage wine and pear brandy. Next day young Maoists, sweeping into the slums of Ivry-sur-Seine and Nanterre and a shantytown near Bugnolet, grandly distributed tins of foie...
...July and August," said Laird. As battlefield action in Cambodia sharpened -the venture had cost 140 American lives through last week-Laird and Rogers tried to accentuate the peaceful. Laird predicted that by July 1971 South Vietnamese rather than Americans would be handling all the major combat in Viet Nam. Both men reaffirmed the Administration's pledge that U.S. forces would withdraw from Cambodia by the end of next month. In fact, some units began to move out last week...
...dare undertake anything like it again without congressional approval. Former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, in a LIFE article appearing this week, took a sterner line toward the Administration and what he called Nixon's "curious obsession about Viet Nam and Southeast Asia." Clifford proposed 1) cessation of American combat activity by Dec. 31 and withdrawal of all military personnel by the end of 1971 at the latest, 2) U.S. avoidance of all offensive operations except those necessary to protect American personnel and 3) even quicker liquidation of the American presence if a cease-fire and certain other items...
...cockpit. This week it is due to vote on the first of two measures aimed at asserting Congress's role in making war-and peace. As approved 9 to 4 by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, the amendment would bar the expenditure of funds for U.S. combat activity in Cambodia after June 30. It would also prohibit financing of American personnel acting "directly or indirectly" in support of Cambodian forces either on Cambodian territory or in Cambodian airspace. The amendment, originally introduced by Republican John Sherman Cooper and Democrat Frank Church, had picked up an additional...
Afro has scheduled a meeting on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. when its members will discuss with white Business School students the ways they can combat racism on campus and across the nation. The timing coincides with first-year MBAs' first exam, a four-hour marketing test. Finals for second year students began one week...