Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...continues to turn over the burden of fighting the war to the South Vietnamese, the Viet Nam air force is rapidly coming into its own. Already it has doubled its combat missions to 40% of the total flown throughout the country, and it is also handling a considerable part of the bombing inside Cambodia. The South Vietnamese are receiving sizable numbers of planes. At the start of 1970, they had only 400 aircraft, including 125 helicopters. By the end of 1971, they will have about 800, half of them helicopters. South Viet Nam now has 26 squadrons...
Though Vietnamese pilots often must sit on pillows to see over the instrument panel of American-made planes, they are by no means short on combat experience. Most American pilots, whose combat tour in Viet Nam usually lasts only one year, can expect to fly 200 to 300 sorties, or about 400 to 600 combat hours. Many Vietnamese pilots have been flying combat missions for years and boast up to 4,000 flying hours, 90% of them in combat. As a result, says General Lucius D. Clay Jr., commander of the Seventh Air Force and son of the famous World...
Although conceding that "everybody is against crime," Nixon struck hard at his ideological opponents in Congress who, he said, were stalling his efforts to combat "permissiveness" and "crime." "It is time for the great Silent Majority of Americans to stand up and be counted," he said...
...month; Laird proposed that by next January it be jumped again to $149.40. Kelley suggested that added pay of $30 to $150 a month be given to soldiers and Marines who volunteer for the least desirable duties with infantry, artillery or armor units, which normally come under fire in combat. This would be on top of present hostile fire...
...combat those who "are seeking the destruction of the social order through clandestine and violent means," he invoked Canada's drastic 1914 War Measures Act. Only twice before, during the two world wars, had the act been put in force; it had never been applied in peacetime. Backing up Trudeau's dramatic action was a proclamation by his Cabinet that "insurrection, real or apprehended, exists...