Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's 18 major barracks and personally ordering the battalion attack that retook the Cerrón Grande dam after it was overrun by guerrillas last June. On the other hand, he has dealt gingerly with a high command accustomed to calling the shots on and off the battlefield. The President retained General Eugenio Vides Casanova, 46, a career officer, as Defense Minister, but surrounded him with astute colonels led by Colonel Adolfo Blandón, 45, the easygoing, bespectacled chief of staff. In all, Duarte has retired or reassigned about 4,500 officers...
Most of the journalists strongly opposed a suggestion that the Defense Secretary accredit in advance all reporters and photographers who cover combat situations. They also objected to a proposal that U.S. citizenship be a requirement for battlefield correspondents representing U.S. news organizations, a rule that might have prevented ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings, a Canadian citizen, from covering the Viet Nam War between...
...across three stages and accompanied by three orchestras. The essentially atonal score nevertheless embraces a variety of styles, including a show-stopping military march. The libretto is one of the harshest antiwar tracts in all of opera, a soldier's tale of unrelieved brutality that opens in a battlefield slaughterhouse and ends with violent death in a madhouse...
...updating of export guidelines, the U.S., Japan and their NATO allies have agreed to block the shipment of sophisticated or rugged microcomputers like the IBM PC-XT that could stand up to battlefield conditions. Because of pressure from U.S. allies, the new limitations, however, do not attempt an unrealistic embargo of the Apple II and other more fragile or less powerful machines. Said one Pentagon official: "We know that the Soviet plan includes acquisition of microcomputers from the West. Now we can slow them down...
Duarte has said he favors a negotiated settlement with the leftist guerrillas, but he is not expected to rush into any talks. One reason is that at the moment the army enjoys the initiative on the battlefield. Duarte also has vowed not to hold discussions as long as the guerrillas still bear arms. Instead, he is likely to promote a variation of the existing amnesty program, under which rebels who relinquish their weapons are offered protection and the right to run in next year's legislative elections. "But if they are after part of the government, they can forget...