Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...often known as the Shea Bill after its sponsor in the Massachusetts legislature, Rep. H. James Shea. Jr. (D-Newton), authorizes Massachusetts residents to refuse combat duty in wars Congress has not declared. Furthermore, it instructs Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn to defend and assist servicemen who refuse to fight on these constitutional grounds...
Last Thursday, Gov. Frances W. Sargent signed into law a bill stating that no Massachusetts serviceman can be ordered into a combat zone outside the United States without a Declaration of War by Congress...
With less success, but considerable potential, Jackson has set up other Breadbasket operations in eight cities, including Los Angeles, Milwaukee. Indianapolis, Brooklyn, Houston and Cleveland. The effort in Cleveland was broadened to include political action. One surprising tactic there was designed to combat what blacks feared would be police harassment of black voters to prevent the re-election of Mayor Stokes last November. The interference was expected at polling places late in the day, when city voters usually turn out in greatest numbers. But Breadbasket sent its band, accompanied by some 600 black teenagers, into Negro areas...
...think the soldiers are any better today. The question of quality and skill is a problem for the Egyptians. Their combat plans are made by Russians. Their planes attack according to a Russian plan. But the implementation is done by Egyptians and this makes a difference. The Russian plans are made for people who continue on their mission despite opposition fire. But the moment we discover Egyptian raiders and start firing, the attack is broken, finished. The carrying out of a plan is as important as the plan itself...
...challenge-or retaliation. Nasser's Soviet-made MIG-21s can reach major targets in Israel, but they are mainly defensive airplanes; with bomb racks added they would lack the range to make it back home. Besides, they would have to encounter Israeli pilots whose advantage over them in combat...