The sheer proliferation of leading combatants has transformed this race.
During that period, two institutions emerged as the leading combatants of all subsequent loyalty drives: the F.B.I. and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Nor is Stone to be trusted on Washington or Moscow, where the cold war's leading combatants made their decisions.
The sheer proliferation of leading combatants has transformed this race For this novel spectacle, we have been prepared by five years of comparatively stable coalition.
It was America that was the real winner of the war, coming out with its homeland unscathed, with far fewer casualties than other leading combatants, an industrial might second to none, and a military might only distantly rivaled by that of the Soviet Union, with third place far in the rear view mirror.
John Kenneth Galbraith called Alsop "the leading non-combatant casualty of Vietnam" after Lyndon Johnson.
Yet these concerns have been allayed by the ex-combatants leading the trade saying that it does not negate or concede their political aspirations.
The programme has been established in consultation with the Afghan New Beginnings Programme (ANBP) which is leading on the disarmament of former combatants across Afghanistan.
When Mr Coburn first proposed cutting off funding in 2009, he complained that NSF money had gone to fund The Human Rights Data Project, which, he noted, had "concluded that the United States has been 'increasingly willing to torture enemy combatants and imprison suspected terrorists,' leading to a worldwide increase in 'human rights violations' as others followed-suit".
In a scene reminiscent of the violence last year in East Timor, the local military appears to have run out of control, arming civilian combatants and, according to witnesses, sometimes leading the attacks.
