Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Major General Omar Bradley arrived at the Tunisian front to serve as field adviser to his onetime West Point classmate Dwight Eisenhower. Bradley at 50 was a career officer who had never seen a day of action on the battlefield...
Every day, around the globe, the hearts and minds of people like Deepak Kumar-as well as his parents and friends-are reached on a battlefield in the East-West struggle where words are the chief weapons. With their troops occupying Afghanistan and massed to pounce on Poland, the Soviets have a lot to explain these days. Through a propaganda effort perhaps seven times as large as that of the U.S., and with more sophistication than ever before, they are doing just that...
...source of power in an insurgency war lies with the people," said Major General Charles Lloyd, commander of the joint South African and local force. "The population is the battlefield." In the largely "pacified" Caprivi Strip, some 60% of the South African security forces are now made up of local blacks serving under white officers...
...Duarte's policy in dealing with dissidents, President Reagan has instead expressed horror at Soviet support of El Salvador's casualty-ridden guerrilla forces. Rather than reevaluating U.S. policy toward the Central American nation in order to ascertain if it is indeed important enough to turn into the next battlefield of Soviet and U.S. warfare, the Reagan administration is currently deliberating just how much the United States should escalate its aid. The answer is, of course, that the United States should cease all military funding to Duarte's repressive regime. But Reagan's withdrawal of moderate ambassador Robert White indicates...
With the morning mists come the legends, the old bugle calls, the tramp of sure feet, voices raised in liberty's arguments. Soon enough Reagan will be down on the battlefield with Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, and his days will be ordered by the cables from Moscow and the Middle East. But, for the moment, he lives in a special glory that is granted to all new Presidents as they wait on Pennsylvania Avenue for the day when they can enter the White House...