Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arms again, this time over a 20th century invader: a 1.2 million-sq.-ft. shopping center that is being bulldozed on a site that served as Robert E. Lee's headquarters in 1862. "Greed is fighting a battle with our heritage," charges Annie Snyder, leader of the Save the Battlefield Coalition, a group struggling to protect the 540 acres adjacent to Manassas National Battlefield Park. "Developers want to pave over ground where brave men are buried...
...courage of individual fighting men than on fancy combat gear. But in an era of smart bombs and guided missiles, even the Leathernecks are reaching for high-tech equipment to get the job done. Last week the Corps unveiled a revolutionary "tilt-rotor" aircraft designed to dominate the modern battlefield. Known as the Osprey, it will take off and land vertically like a helicopter but fly as fast as a conventional plane. It will do all this, the Corps proclaims, by tilting its 38-ft. propellers, which point upward during takeoffs and landings and forward in level flight...
...western part of Beirut, Assad reinforced his position as Lebanon's leading power broker. At the same time, he managed to preserve a relatively cordial relationship with Iran, which had given its blessing to Hizballah's negotiators. Iran's cooperation may have been motivated in part by the battlefield losses it has suffered recently in the eight-year-old gulf war with Iraq. Last week Iraqi troops recaptured Iranian-occupied territory east of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, beyond the battered southern port city of Basra...
...said that he has tried marijuana, enlisted the support of Mayor Ed Koch, New York City's highest-volume antidrug crusader. Gore's quest has come to resemble Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Wilderness Campaign, a murky and meandering series of ill-conceived firefights in search of a clear battlefield. Gore, Jackson and Dukakis emphasized a theme that is bound to play a role in the fall election: the willingness of Reagan and Bush to cozy up to the Noriega regime even after there was evidence that he was serving as a conduit for drug profits. Says Gore: "I believe...
NATION: In court and on the battlefield, the contra issue burns anew...