Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military front Saigon faced a more immediate challenge. The recent battlefield "lull" was shattered by Communist attacks all over the country. The renewed fighting apparently marked the start of the Communists' so-called "winter-spring campaign." They intend to stage sporadic coordinated attacks throughout the country until American public opinion forces a U.S. withdrawal. Though the campaign's start was scheduled long before last week's antiwar Moratorium demonstrations in the U.S., there was nevertheless an effort to get the fighting in step with the peace marchers. An enemy document captured southeast of Saigon recently urged intense...
...long afterwards, people began to leave. The park beneath the Monument looked, in the early dusk, like a debris-strewn battlefield. But the Monument shone in the sunlight. Suddenly, as if they had erupted from some invisible door in its base, a huge crowd of black-jacketed demonstrators came charging down, waving NLF flags and chanting. "Revolution!! One More War!!" They surged past us, regrouped, and charged by one more time. They were very frightening. After a short rest, they headed off to the Justice Department, this time in a fast march...
...enemy action would bring "strong and effective measures" in response. It was a tough speech, and in it there was no gesture of accommodation to those who backed the Oct. 15 Moratorium protest. The President announced no new withdrawal of U.S. troops and proclaimed no cease-fire on the battlefield...
...wants everybody to show "backbone" in resisting inflationary wage and price increases rather than relying on White House "jawbone." General Electric, the fourth largest manufacturer in the country, is notorious among union men for its stiff take-it-or-leave-it negotiating tactics. Thus, G.E. seemed an ideal battlefield on which to Jet management and labor fight to a settlement while the Administration watched from the sidelines...
...Which battlefield will historians regard as the true scene of this "first American military defeat"-Viet Nam or the college campus...