Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Madrid that we can truly understand the tragedy of the destruction of the Spanish Republic. We see avid militiamen raising clenched fists out the windows of railroad cars headed for the front. We then see them scurrying like scared rabbits through the din and smoke of the battlefield, advancing in spite of their terror. We are witness to heaps of mutilated bodies lying in fields where, a year earlier, wheat was almost ready for harvest...
...joint aid for Lebanon. Egypt and Syria threatened to send planes if Israel continued to hit the Palestinian camps, and Syria reportedly dispatched ground-to-air missiles. General Mordechai Gur, Israel's Chief of Staff, warned that "if Lebanon gets serious military aid, the country will become a battlefield," and threatened a pre-emptive attack. Even as the second round of Kissinger's disengagement was calmly ending on the Golan Heights (see fallowing story), the Middle East was buffeted by new war jitters...
Maryland Developer Thomas Ottenstein has announced that he will open, probably this summer, his nearly completed 307-ft. observation tower at the edge of the Gettysburg battlefield. When historians, environmentalists and some townspeople expressed shock and consternation at his idea, Ottenstein insisted that the tower would be of considerable educational value and not detract from the hallowed battlefield ground. At a cost of $1.35 a person, the tower will permit observers a comprehensive view of the terrain where at least 7,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died and more than 33,000 were wounded in three days of battle...
...this week to negotiate disengagement, the Israeli government sent out signals that the Secretary's assignment might be more difficult than he thought. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan went on television with a grim estimate of the situation: "When Kissinger arrives here, he may find a battlefield instead of a negotiation table...
...Japanese soldiers died in a losing cause. But rather than rely on troubadours to describe the battlegrounds, many Japanese are making the grim journey to these islands in the sun. Not incidentally they have spawned a lucrative sideline for Japan's booming tourist industry-senseki jumpai, or battlefield pilgrimages...