Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week long banner headlines told of the ferocious battles. Yugoslav television carried filmed reports of the fighting and a somber briefing by a major general on each day's action. One big Zagreb daily put out a special battlefield edition for the troops...
...Brussels. Hirohito was handed a ritual sword with which, according to custom, visiting dignitaries fan the eternal flame. Obviously unsure what he was supposed to do with the thing, Hirohito gave a military salute instead. When he visited Waterloo, cheers of "Long live the Emperor!" echoed across the battlefield. After a gala banquet given by King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola, the slight, shy, 70-year-old Hirohito and his demure Empress flew on to Paris, where 50 years ago, as Crown Prince, he spent what he remembers as some of the happiest, freest days of his life...
William Haseltine, a teaching fellow in Biology at Harvard and a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, will testify about electronic battlefield sensors which are currently being installed along the South Vietnamese border to replace the withdrawing American troops...
...mechanization of slaughter, the progressive removal of any elements of the human will from the act of killing. To confront Charlie Company was to confront a group of men who had been faced with decisions and made them badly: to confront the B-52 and the electronic battlefield was to realize that America had institutionalized war almost to the point that no individual could change it in any detail...
...consider the most distressing implication of the amendment: the drafting of women into the military. "When women take part in the military system," say the authors, "they more truly become full participants in the rights and obligations of citizenship"-even if the obligation involves combat. Physical stamina on the battlefield, they contend, is no longer as necessary in a mechanized military as it once was. Moreover, "as between brutalizing our young men and brutalizing our young women, there is little to choose." The article is similarly direct in its examination of the amendment's probable effect in other areas...