Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan for a guarantee to the U.S.S.R. of Afghan neutrality; 2) an agreement on Poland offering Western economic assistance in exchange for internal liberalization; 3) a sharp reduction in the number of Soviet tanks stationed in East Germany in return for "a significant cut in U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons in Central Europe...
...latest battlefield in the long, murderous war between Iran and Iraq is a 50-mile front from Dezful in Iran across the border to the Iraqi town of Amara. There, beginning on Nov. 1, an Iranian force of about 20,000, mostly fanatical Islamic Guard units and including some basij, or groups of teen-age zealots, staged a new offensive. Attacking at night to neutralize Iraq's overwhelming air superiority, and sticking to the high, steep terrain that favors Iranian manpower over Iraqi firepower, they claim to have captured 210 sq. mi. of territory, killing 6,100 Iraqi defenders...
...letter applies its moral guidelines to very specific elements of U.S. policy. Tactical nuclear weapons based in Western Europe to repel a Soviet conventional attack present "an unacceptable moral risk" because it is unlikely that any battlefield nuclear exchange could be limited. (NATO's tactical nuclear weapons are supposed to offset the Soviets' 2.6-to-l advantage in tanks and other conventional weapons.) The MX missile, the bishops say, might be destabilizing; since it threatens the Soviets' missiles, it could prompt Moscow to launch a pre-emptive strike...
...more screams (and mercilessly to drag the production out to full feature length) the story then goes on to an exorcism, when the mostly irrelevant Father Tom (Andrew Prine) risks his career, and his life, to wage war with the devil. Sonny's body serving as the battlefield...
Over the centuries, the rolling slopes and valleys that lie to the west of the Jordan River have become a Holy Land to Jews, Muslims and Christians alike, containing shrines hallowed by all three faiths. The area, which is about half the size of Connecticut, has also been a battlefield since ancient times for warring tribes and nations. At Jehovah's behest, Abraham led his Jewish tribe from the deserts of what is now Iraq to these fertile valleys beside the Jordan, then known as Palestine, the land of the Philistines...