Word: battlefield
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rigged with half a dozen Gatling guns programmed to aim and fire simultaneously, raining eight thousand rounds a minute into an area the size of a football field, driving a bullet into every six inches of ground. As this lumbering weapons sytem circles a battlefield, the stream of lead is played back and forth like a murderous garden hose; all exposed living creatures...
...remaining battlefield is Congress. The AFL-CIO is supporting a labor law reform act. The most important parts of this act would not make new rules, but just increase penalties for violations of existing labor laws. Violations such as Stevens has perpetrated in the past will only cease when the laws make them unprofitable...
...issue is a 1-kiloton nuclear bomb* that can be delivered to battlefield targets by 20-ft. Lance missiles, with a range of 75 miles, or by 8-in. howitzer shells, which can be fired about 13 miles. The weapon gets its name from the fact that on detonation it releases enormous quantities of radioactive neutrons that kill people without destroying buildings. According to proponents, the bomb could break up a Soviet tank attack without destroying buildings outside the battle zone. Moreover, since most neutron radiation dissipates in seconds, NATO troops could move in quickly to secure the battlefield...
Five days later, Halevy again raced to a scene of bloodshed, this time in southern Lebanon, as the Israeli army retaliated against Palestinian terrorist bases. Again he had a vantage point: he and Photographer David Rubinger were among the first newsmen who managed to get to the battlefield during the actual invasion. Rubinger's pictures and Halevy's reporting-along with the files of six other TIME correspondents who covered the combat-are part of this week's cover story, the 14th on the Middle East that we have run during the past four years...
...know you're ready for it; I knew it before I came to see you," Kissinger answered. "I asked the Pentagon for a few aerial photographs of the battlefield and received a full report. Your wall of rockets consists of so many batteries (he specified the number), you have 800 tanks surrounding the Israeli Deversoir pocket, the number of your guns is (again he specified it) and you can actually wipe out that pocket. You must know, however, that if you do this the Pentagon will strike...