Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early last week, Anson cabled that "there are two wars in Cambodia: the visible one of the battlefield, the other the unseen struggle in the countryside." He then drove out of Phnom-Penh heading for the battlefield at Skoun, 45 miles away. The other war stopped Anson short. His white Ford Cortina was found outside of Skoun, its tires flattened by gunfire. Villagers reported that his car had been stopped at an enemy roadblock, and that Anson had been led away, apparently unhurt...
Since the U.S. completed its withdrawal from Cambodia in late June, the fighting in Indochina has fallen off drastically. The U.S. death toll for the week ending July 4, for example, was 61, the lowest in 31 years. The comparative battlefield lull was overshadowed, however, by intense diplomatic activity. As Secretary of State William P. Rogers wound up his 15-day, five-nation Asian tour, he spoke of "further political initiatives that might be taken for peace." These words, combined with other comments by U.S. officials, led the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu to wonder if Washington was thinking...
...landscape of New York State Democratic politics is like a long-contested battlefield, littered with the bones of fallen warriors, marked with monuments to victorious but transient knights, occupied in places by warring if ostensibly fraternal tribes. Leading Democrats themselves have described the factions of the state party as "feudal baronies," cannibalistic and almost nonexistent as an organized force. One leader on the party's left says simply: "It's a legal fiction." The very real cast of characters includes organization conservatives and liberals, anti-organization insurgents and reformers, some in and some outside the organization entirely...
...Great Society planners saw it back in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson appointed the 35-member American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the year 1976 was to be no ordinary national birthday party. Instead of creating battlefield reruns or splashy carnivals of no lasting value, the eelebration money would be used to redevelop a city or even an entire region. This regional concentration would be the quintessence of the national spirit, demonstrating the admirable virtues of teamwork, brainpower and American know...
...Guard was conceived as an arm of the army. They are trained in battlefield combat, and only partially in keeping order in the streets. Their instruction comes from men who are biased against the young and the black, who are the citizens and the enemy that they will face in the streets. Their bias encourages overreaction in riot situations. And they, unlike the police who they play backstop for, are armed with weapons that make overreaction a fatal...