Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John, in eight cases out of nine cited his The Globe, you didn't tell the truth. You didn't tell the truth about where you went to graduate school. You didn't tell the truth about receiving a "battlefield promotion" in the Vietnam War You didn't tell the truth about how your father died. You didn't tell the truth about how long you've been affiliated with the Republican Party. You didn't tell the truth about who owns the downtown office building that houses your company. You didn't tell the truth about how soon after...
...more than a dozen military and merchant vessels. By early evening the workers had picked up 144 bodies and airlifted them to Cork, where Irish authorities set up a special mortuary. The possibility of anyone's surviving was remote. One rescue spotter likened the body-strewn scene to "a battlefield...
...Said George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "No force on earth can take away the arms of a people who defend their just cause." Abu Mousa, another leading P.L.O. dissident, accused Amal of "disseminating lies to cover its crimes against Palestinians." While the battlefield alliance hardly amounted to a permanent reunification of the bitterly divided P.L.O., it demonstrated to Syria, which had given at least tacit backing to the Amal offensive, that its control over the anti-Arafat Palestinians could not be taken for granted...
...that important. What really interests the Soviets is such things as clues to laser components in systems for navigating nuclear submarines underwater, the guidance mechanisms of antitank missiles, and the engine air filters you put into battle tanks. The fact is that military technology has become the main espionage battlefield...
...structured and will be able to carry on most of the existing programs," says Stephen Daggett of the Center for Defense Information, a liberal Washington group. Most likely to face elimination are those on the verge of making the transition from development to production. Among them: the Sergeant York battlefield air defense gun (DIVAD) and the advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM), both of which have been plagued by testing and cost problems...