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...Ethiopia-the only Arab state to do so. All in all, the situation is so complex and unstable that it has become difficult to tell who is doing what to whom without a score card. Says a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Horn of Africa is the new battlefield between the big powers-and the little ones as well...
...caused internal hemorrhaging. At least 100 demonstrators and ten police were hurt, including some on both sides who lost hands or feet when concussion grenades exploded prematurely. The environmentalists, neatly bottled up on a narrow road, never had a chance to reach the nuclear site a mile from the battlefield, and their cause ended up as another casualty in the confusion. "What does beating up flics have to do with nuclear energy?" asked one disgusted demonstrator huddling in the chill rain. Scolded the newspaper Quotidien de Paris: "The notion of defense of the environment implies nonviolence...
Erstwhile Allies. On Sunday, Cairo launched more bombing raids and claimed that six Libyan planes and several tanks had been destroyed; two Egyptian Sukhoi 20 planes were shot down. Although the exact situation on the battlefield remained uncertain, one thing was clear: the dispute between these angry neighbors and erstwhile allies was close to careening out of control...
...neutron bomb would be delivered by Lance missiles to battlefield targets as far distant as 75 miles, or by 8-in. artillery shells to objectives up to 20 miles away. It gets its name from the fact that on detonation, unusually large quantities of radioactive neutrons are released, which are effective in killing people without destroying buildings or vehicles. They can, for example, penetrate enemy armor at considerable ranges, though such armor can be made resistant to the blast and heat of a regular nuclear explosion, except in direct or near-direct hits. "Large yield" nuclear weapons, on the other...
...wave of Soviet tanks and armored personnel carriers rolls across the northern German plain. Unable to stem the tide, NATO generals request permission to use tactical nuclear weapons. According to an alliance agreement, the President of the U.S. must give his assent before battlefield nukes can be fired. He does. Scores of heavy artillery pieces are aimed at the invaders. Nuclear devices, each packing the equivalent of ten kilotons (10,000 tons) worth of TNT, halt the aggressors. But in the process, West Germany's cities and factories are leveled, and civilian casualties run into the millions. An American...