Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long as Iraqi troops remained on its soil. Still, his appearance at the U.N. could mean that Iran is finally edging out of its diplomatic shell. Some military and diplomatic observers spectulated that, for all its fierce military resistance, Iran might finally be beginning to hurt on the battlefield...
...other major battlefield is downstate among rural conservative voters, who gave Carter a higher tally in 1976 than a Democrat usually gets. Like other conservatives, they are now leaning to Reagan. In Illinois this year, with no Daley at the helm in Cook County, anything can happen. Says Illinois State Representative Donald Totten, who heads the Reagan campaign in four Midwestern states: "There's a lot of switching around going on out there...
...Against a backdrop of blue, green and gray, sunflecked mountains and a small, calm lake, Army's Michie Stadium hardly seems an appropriate place for a football game. Perched on top of a hill and engulfed by an eerie pre-game quiet, the U.S. Military Academy's athletic battlefield is incongruously serene. As one plebe remarked with a smile, "Looks nice from the outside, doesn...
Davidson based his story on reports that included battlefield dispatches by Correspondent Adam Zagorin and Cairo Bureau Chief William Drozdiak. Zagorin, who is based in Beirut, flew to Amman and set out on a grueling all-night bus trip across the Jordanian desert to Baghdad. He helped cover the 1977 border skirmishes between Egypt and Libya for U.P.I., "But this was my first look at direct air attacks," says Zagorin. "It was a sobering and frightening experience." Meanwhile, Drozdiak was on his way back to Cairo from a four-day conference of Islamic ministers in Fez, Morocco, when the fighting...
...Brown, who offered testimony to the Senate, Meselson agrees that the United States retains a credible deterrent. "Contrary to popular misconception, our strength is not deteriorating," Meselson says. "We have more than enough nerve gas to force the Warsaw pact countries into putting on masks and suits on the battlefield and that is enough...