Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great irony of the invasion of Lebanon, and of the assault on West Beirut last week, is that the military victories may ultimately make Israeli security more uncertain. No Arab nation, or combination of Arab nations, can stand up to Israel on the battlefield. The popular frustration bred by this fact undermines governments and encourages the growth of radical groups that are implacably opposed to Israel's existence. Every time Israel tries to impose its will on the Arabs, its actions serve to unsettle the entire region. Many Arab governments may feel that the P.L.O. is a disruptive force...
...daylight spread across the urban battlefield, the fires died down over West Beirut, but huge columns of smoke in amazingly varied tints of white, gray and black roiled sky ward. The shelling continued, moving forward into West Beirut just ahead of the advancing Israeli troops...
...news, now broadcast in color, projects the same kind of official optimism. True, there has been an unbroken series of military victories on the fighting front to lend credence to Saddam's leadership abilities. No one talks about what might happen if there were a reversal on the battlefield...
...cost of the war is being felt here, not because the Iraqis are losing on the battlefield but because this nearly landlocked country is experiencing a severe economic pinch after 23 months of fighting. The vastly superior Iranian navy, which the Ayatullah Khomeini inherited from the late Shah, has effectively sealed off the vital Shatt al Arab waterway. With the exception of military hardware, which is flown in, Iraq's supplies must arrive by land routes from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Result: astronomical consumer prices. A quart bottle of drinking water costs $25. If you are desperate...
...Iranian tanks were met by fierce fire from Iraqi artillery and helicopter gunships. Khomeini's troops advanced in waves, stepping over their own wounded on the battlefield, before many fell to join them. "If you ever wanted to know what suicide means," said an Iraqi officer at the site, "you should have seen how they advanced and how they were mowed down. Then the flies began to swarm over the Iranian dead. That's all you could see: the sand, the flies and the corpses. I have never seen anything like...