Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encrusted with black blood shuddered as the rain streaked graying skin filmed with red dust. Wind and water noises mingled with the swift shufflings of looters, moving away from one fallen from to another, muffled in dark woollen cloaks that flapped predatory as the ravens circled lower over the battlefield...
...Israeli incursion raised fears that a battlefield miscalculation could accidentally trigger a fifth Middle East war. Officials in Damascus complained bitterly that the Israelis were deliberately trying to provoke the Syrian troops in Lebanon. Since the official end of the major civil war in Lebanon last October, to avoid any such confrontation, the Israelis have stayed south of the Litani River -Israel's so-called red line (see map). There was also speculation in Damascus that the Israelis might use any response as an excuse for a pre-emptive strike against Syria. Even if they were not spoiling...
...shots were actually fired. Instead, 1,900 umpires-sporting white armbands and riding in Jeeps flying white pennants-clambered about the battlefield. Over field radios, commanders were told "You're dead," while "killed" vehicles were marked with yellow flags. There were, however, real casualties; in ground accidents and one mid-air collision, two American servicemen and six German civilians were killed...
...Ethiopia-the only Arab state to do so. All in all, the situation is so complex and unstable that it has become difficult to tell who is doing what to whom without a score card. Says a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Horn of Africa is the new battlefield between the big powers-and the little ones as well...
...caused internal hemorrhaging. At least 100 demonstrators and ten police were hurt, including some on both sides who lost hands or feet when concussion grenades exploded prematurely. The environmentalists, neatly bottled up on a narrow road, never had a chance to reach the nuclear site a mile from the battlefield, and their cause ended up as another casualty in the confusion. "What does beating up flics have to do with nuclear energy?" asked one disgusted demonstrator huddling in the chill rain. Scolded the newspaper Quotidien de Paris: "The notion of defense of the environment implies nonviolence...