Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This restaging of the First Battle of Manassas (as the South, which won and thus should have the choice, calls the conflict) came 125 years less one day after the original. The site was five miles from the actual battlefield, on 500 acres turned over for the occasion by a land developer. It was one of the largest re-enactments so far in the national craze for battle re-creations, which gathered momentum as a result of the Bicentennial celebrations ten years ago, and shows no sign of a cease-fire...
Gale, with two UCLA colleagues, Paul Terasaki and Dr. Richard Champlin, and Israeli Specialist Yair Reisner, worked with Soviet doctors under what he called "battlefield" conditions. In all, 299 people, most of them fire fighters and plantworkers, were hospitalized after exposure to estimated levels of radiation that ranged from 100 rads to more than 800 rads. In normal circumstances a person is exposed to about one-tenth of a rad per year. "Those in the lower-dose range will have modest and reversible damage," Gale says. Many of the 299 fell into this category. But 35 patients were exposed...
...moment, even the truth seemed unsavory. Pinning a medal on some public servant's chest mainly for his attending a Harvard party seemed the height of hubris. Medals are usually reserved for extraordinary accomplishments, like winning a marathon, furthering world peace, or failing that, demonstrating uncommon valor on the battlefield...
...England Journal of Medicine reports that Viet Nam-era veterans are 86% more likely to commit suicide than nonveterans and 53% more likely to die in car crashes. "The casualties of forced military service," write the authors, "may not be limited to those that are counted on the battlefield...
...fiercest fighting in the Iran-Iraq war, as Iraqi troops mounted a blistering counterattack against dug-in Iranian invaders. By week's end Iran still held its grip on the peninsula. And neighboring Arab sheikdoms began to wonder whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had lost the initiative on the battlefield to the Iranian juggernaut...