Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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There is no agreement within the medical community as to which of these approaches is best, and there is serious competition for the relatively small amount of money available to combat addiction. "Everyone sees everyone else as a threat to his program," says one New York physician, and his observation is as accurate as it is unfortunate. For while the experts are arguing, people are becoming addicted and dying...
GROUND TROOPS. "There are no American ground combat troops in Laos. We have no plans for introducing ground combat forces." If the White House develops such plans, Congress would be asked to approve the move...
...CASUALTIES: According to the President, "No American stationed in Laos has ever been killed in ground combat operations." But over the past six years, more than 400 American airmen, most of them stationed outside Laos, have been lost over the little country; roughly 200 are known to be dead, and the balance are listed as missing or captured...
...play ends, we find that the magnetic bond of combat which has continually drawn Schlink and Garga together is a product of the loneliness which each human being feels in the midst of a faceless jungle like Chicago. They must fight because they cannot communicate as people on any other terms. Brecht is showing us that we have developed a social system which-like Chicagoseparates, rather than unites, every man. "Human skin grows thicker and thicker." Schlink says, because of this system. This skin keeps people from knowing each other. The only force that pierces this, outer layer...
...bill becomes law any Massachusetts citizen who is ?? to serve in a combat zone could serve notice to the state attorney general. The attorney general would then be able to appeal the order to the U.S. Supreme Court, ?? a decision on the con-?? of the President's action in Southeast Asia without a Declaration of War by Congress...