Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prime Minister-to-be says he will respect the agreements but will give Israeli security forces "complete freedom of action" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to combat terrorism. That would violate terms of the government-signed accords that bar Israeli forces from operating in the autonomous areas under Arafat's control, encompassing most of the Gaza Strip and six West Bank cities, unless they are in hot pursuit of a fugitive. Returning Israeli troops to areas from which they have withdrawn, even for limited operations, would set them up to clash with the 30,000 men Arafat...
...Having gone through combat, and having lost a lot of friends, I never even went to graduation," he says...
...case, would a man who had ascended to such high rank require these small, phony proclamations of martial virtue to be pinned above his chest hair? Because he started out so low in rank? Why wear tokens asserting that years ago he was somewhere--in combat in Vietnam--where it could so easily be proved that...
...answer, of course, is that those men who did serve in combat in Vietnam must care about it and must consider it an affront, not only to their service but to the sacrifices made in an ill-conceived war by the 57,600 Americans who died in it and the hundreds of thousands more who left arms and legs and sometimes pieces of their sanity in Vietnam. It is self-evident that no one who had not earned the decorations for valor in battle should have worn them, least of all the Navy's top officer...
Still: Should reporters pursue a story such as the one about the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations wearing combat decorations he did not earn...