Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME Bangkok Bureau Chief James Willwerth traveled to the battlefield. His report...
After two days on the road, with an overnight stop in the town of Son La, the bus rolls onto the hot, flat plain at Dien Bien Phu, 18 miles from the Laotian border. It is difficult to imagine the battlefield as it appeared 30 years ago. The French chose Dien Bien Phu because its strategic location seemed to make it the ideal place to cut Viet Minh supply lines and thus to harass Giap's troops into submission. Protected by mountains on all sides, it seemed impregnable. Against heavy odds, Ho's Viet Minh army laid siege...
...battlefield deployment of chemical weapons inflicted "only" an estimated 1100 Iranian casualties, a minute percentage of the hundreds of thousands of casualties suffered by both sides. Why wasn't the war the major topic of international discussion in February when tens of thousands of Iranians died in "preliminary forays" into Iraqi defense lines...
...does Dan Rather mention the Iran-Iraq war almost parenthetically as the evening's fourth story--preceded by a Tab commercial--and only as a 20 second blurb? And why don't we find the horror stories of the battlefield massacres on the front page of The New York Times? Why is the story a short column on page A23, between a story on a municipal garbage strike and an ad for cheap shots...
Saturday the men's lacrosse team turned Ohiri Field into an urban battlefield and mugged the Tiger...