Word: battlefronts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stories, describing the hardships they endured. Some will be tempted to go on spending -- and drinking -- binges. Military and civilian family experts caution that returning warriors may feel dissatisfied with home life. Many will be inattentive to or dismissive of family problems. "People who have been on the battlefront have very nearly faced death," says Falk. "Things that may be important to the family may seem trivial to them...
...give me a meat grinder," General Norman Schwarzkopf has repeatedly told his operations planners. Instead, AirLand doctrine calls for air attacks on the enemy's rear areas to cut off supply lines, destroy command-and-control centers, and strike at reinforcing units in order to isolate the battlefront...
Last week's attack was not Israel's first brush with Scuds. Toward the end of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Egypt fired three Scud-Bs at targets in the Sinai and at the battlefront, inflicting little damage. In the ongoing conflict, however, the violently wayward Scud is invested with new menace by Iraq's chemical-warfare potential...
...York City is the biggest battlefront, but the war over condom distribution in schools is spreading across the country. One high school in Cambridge, Mass., three in Chicago, three in Los Angeles and one in Miami already dispense the devices to students through in-school health clinics, if parents give their consent. Sharon Pratt Dixon, the newly inaugurated mayor of Washington, backed school-based condom programs during her election campaign, provided students receive instruction in human reproduction and safe-sex practices...
Taylor's rebels had evacuated most foreigners--but not scores of Guineans and Nigerians--from Monrovia's battlefront in an 18-vehicle convoy on Wednesday. Guinea and Nigeria are participating in the West African peacekeeping force...