Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army bulldozers. But elsewhere in the capital, the combatants continued exchanging gunfire. The week's senseless violence had taken 100 lives, raising the death toll since April to more than 2,500, and had devastated even more of Beirut, turning the capital's urbanscape into a scarred battlefield (see color...
Whether the hazard be death or ennui, where will these "civilian volunteers" come from? There is only one sizable U.S. training school for electronic battlefield technicians, and that is the military. During the Viet Nam War, the Pentagon trained not only its own intelligence units but also CIA and National Security Agency technicians in the arts of electronic-combat surveillance, and some of them may be available. Reportedly the American technicians will also have to be well versed in the use of "sidearms," which, in the Sinai, usually mean Uzi submachine guns...
...House and 61 to 38 in the Senate. In theory, the Democrats could agree to make enough compromises-for example, cutting the dollar amounts on their spending bills-to persuade Ford to go along with their legislation or, alternatively, to win enough Republican votes in the critical battlefield of the House to override the President's vetoes...
Lebanon, the financial center of the Arab world, is sometimes called the Switzerland of the Middle East. By now, some sectors of its capital city look more like a World War II battlefield. For the third time in scarcely three months, Beirut has been rocked by fighting between members of the right-wing nationalistic Phalange Party, most of them Maronite Christians, and bands of predominantly Moslem leftists backed by Palestinian extremists (TIME, July 7). By the time the third round ended last week, after eight days of violence, some 300 people had been killed and 700 wounded. That brought...
...Liners. Neither mistresses nor the fact that he kept a light on in his room until he was 30 is enough to keep the coward from combat. It is on the battlefield, with some astonishingly evocative camera work, that the director-writer-star sends up Russian literature and never lets it come down. It is as if one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Hasidic schoolboys were managing Tolstoy's estate and Dostoevsky's psychoses. The Brothers Karamazov meet the Brothers Marx; the epic of War and Peace is reduced to a battle of church and shtetl; Boris...