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...scene is a future battlefield. On the ground, driverless tanks advance and fire with deadly accuracy, while insect-like vehicles scurry across all but impassable terrain. Overhead, pilots guide their aircraft by talking aloud in the cockpit and aim missiles with the movement of their eyes. Higher still, orbiting jets blast satellites back to earth. All this is surveyed from computer consoles by commanders who refine their strategies and issue new orders as the fighting rages...
...wealthy businessman, sued the Globe over a story that appeared when he ran for Governor of Massachusetts in 1982. The jury agreed with the Globe that Lakian had falsely claimed to have taken graduate courses at Harvard, and that his campaign literature falsely claimed he had won a battlefield promotion in Viet Nam. But Lakian was able to take advantage of a Supreme Court decision (New York Times vs. Sullivan), originally hailed as a great triumph for the press. Under this decision, what matters most is what a writer or editor thought to be true at the time of publication...
...antagonists even use the language of the battlefield. "Everybody's waiting in the trenches," said California Democratic Congressman Leon Panetta about impending votes on Capitol Hill. A White House aide sounded last week like a lecturer at a war college: "When we could pick where and when we wanted to fight, when we could direct set-piece campaigns in which we could mobilize all the White House resources, we never lost a major battle--tax cuts, budget, AWACS, MX missiles. In the past we used to fight one battle at a time in one House of Congress. Now we have...
...even before the unraveling, and the storm that followed, was there anything wrong with the original scenario? Just a few months ago, after all, did not Kohl and President Mitterrand of France hold a moving reconciliation at the World War I battlefield at Verdun? When Kohl raised with Reagan the idea of a cemetery visit, he cited the Verdun ceremony as the model...
...powders to pour into wounds have reduced the death toll even further. But many of the men and women who pass through Landstuhl owe their lives to the Critical Care Air Transport Teams (ccatts), the flying intensive-care units that treat the troops as they are lifted from the battlefield by helicopter to a combat hospital within minutes of being hit. From there they are flown six-and-a-half hours to Landstuhl. "None of us have ever taken care of this large an amount of Americans injured in conflict," says Air Force Colonel Tyler Putnam, one of Landstuhl...