Word: combative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eager for combat during the Korean War, Liddy, fresh from Fordham, was assigned instead as an Army lieutenant to antiaircraft batteries in New York City. After his discharge, he met "the woman I wanted to bear my children," Frances Ann Purcell: "A Teuton/Celt of high intelligence, a mathematical mind, physical size, strength and beauty, she had it all." Liddy finished Fordham law school, passed the New York bar exam in July 1957, and in September was sworn in as an FBI agent. "I submitted a memo on Frances [to the FBI] and had her checked," he writes. "She was clean...
Michael Harrington, DSOC national chairman, will speak on the strategy which students must use to combat particular issues like apartheid, poverty and racism...
Harrington concludes with a call for sweeping reforms in the American system--proposals he argues are politically realistic. Democratizing investments and allowing the American worker a share of investment decisions and corporate ownership would effectively combat destructive corporate power. Progressive taxation that does not discriminate against the poor and middle classes, coupled with stiff inheritance taxes, would help to equalize the maldistribution of wealth and income in the U.S. Finally, Harrington offers a controversial solution to the nation's economic ills: a commitment to full employment, which would at the same time combat inflation and more effectively distribute wealth...
...radical structural changes such as a complete overthrow of capitalism. He doesn't explain how he can accomplish the reforms he proposes--direct challenges to capitalist assumptions--without changing the capitalist system. As the example of the Allende government in Chile indicates, democratically-elected socialist governments may have to combat a lack of business confidence or outright business sabotage. As head of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), Harrington is committed to peaceful change and socialist reform: he should spell out how to get there...
...spouses are willing to accept longer overseas-duty tours, which contribute to better military preparedness. A tour with dependents is normally three years; for unaccompanied servicemen it is usually two years. "Continuity is a vital factor," says Pauly. "It takes me 150 days to get an F-111 crew combat-ready. We can't be turning over people all the time on tours that must be short because they are unaccompanied. A three-year tour, with dependents, gives me a trained, combat-ready individual for an extra year...