Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIMES ARE HARD for Israeli diplomats serving at the United Nations. Their Arab counterparts have converted the halls and chambers of the organization into an ideological battlefield almost as intense as the real one back home. While the most flagrant acts of international illegality are silently ignored, a coalition of Arab, Communist, and Third World countries noisily churns out hundreds of anti-Israel resolutions in every U.N. forum. So the diplomats were probably not surprised to learn last week that the U.N. is scheduling a conference in Vienna this July to examine "an alleged alliance" between South Africa...
...last week) 2. White Gold Wielder, Donaldson (2) 3. The Little Drummer Girl, Le Carre (4) 4. The Lonesome Gods, L'Amour (3) 5. Ancient Evenings, Mailer (5) 6. The Summer of Katya, Trevanian (8) 7. Voice of the Heart, Bradford (7) 8. Icebreaker, Gardner (6) 9. Battlefield Earth, Hubbard 10. The Valley of Horses, Auel...
...drawn-out war against Iraq has clearly helped the regime to deflect attention from much of its internal strife. The offensive occupies an army that could otherwise become dangerously restless, while allowing Khomeini through assassinations and contrived battlefield accidents to get rid of certain "undesirables." Says Mansouri: "Khomeini is the time bomb the Shah bequeathed to Iran when he fled." It is a lesson even the Soviets have had to learn the hard way. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York
...with three warheads each, French and British subs with 272 warheads in all, and an assortment of aircraft on both sides--can travel hundreds of miles and destroy every major target in Europe, including Russia. Tactical weapons, by definition, are short-range, low-yield nuclear devices designed for battlefield use against military targets. In contrast, strategic weapons can destroy the mainland U.S. and U.S.S.R...
...leader, it was widely agreed, the U.S. must be more sensitive to the gusts of anxiety that shake Western Europe, and the Reagan Administration must moderate its language on East-West issues. At one point during the conference, Senator Tsongas told Richard Burt, "If you assume that the next battlefield is the European heart and mind, to coin an old Viet Nam expression, if that is where the fight is now, how does one rationalize the rhetoric which is giving the Soviets an advantage in that battle? What assurance can we give the Europeans that between today...