Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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According to the bill, the state attorney general will appeal to the nation's highest court if any Massachusetts serviceman is ordered to a combat zone outside the United States, without a Congressional declaration...
...REINFORCEMENTS: There has been no increase in American personnel over the past year, the statement said. Today there are 616 Americans directly employed in Laos by the U.S. Government and another 424 U.S. contract employees. But North Viet Nam, the President continued, has sent an additional 13,000 combat troops over the past several months, for a total...
...cardinal failure of recent U.S. policy has been that Washington has sought to achieve a nuclear settlement with the Soviets without simultaneously seeking a military detente concerning ground forces in Europe, where the Warsaw Pact combat forces outnumber NATO forces by at least 2 to 1. With the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) negotiations soon to begin in Vienna between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, many Europeans are increasingly worried that they no longer loom very large in American defense considerations. Sensing this attitude, the Soviets have resumed their old call for a European security conference designed to make...
...longer postpone action while we try to dot every scientific i and cross every scientific t" When he was advised that color TV sets and microwave ovens are a potentially dangerous source of radiation, Johnson quickly alerted the public, then helped to write strict new radiation standards. To combat black lung disease, which now afflicts about 100,000 miners, he established interim limits on the amount of airborne coal dust permitted in a mine shaft, until Congress finally set permanent standards last year...
Downsigns. The Nixon Administration's efforts to combat inflation by slowing the economy have long been expected to squeeze corporate profits. Even so, the latest figures on last year's earnings sketch a darkening portrait of business fortunes. A survey last month by the New York Stock Exchange showed that the net income of 559 Big Board companies dropped 11% in 1969 from the year before. Some industries fared much worse. Earnings of the twelve largest U.S. airlines plunged 43% last year to $152 million, as operating costs soared and the growth of passenger traffic slowed. Retailers have...