Word: battlefronts
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...Tehran, Iranian television showed pictures of slaughtered Iraqi soldiers lying face down in the muddy trenches. In Baghdad, Iraqi TV offered the same macabre programming, except that the corpses piled along barbed-wire fences were those of young Iranian soldiers. Once again the battlefront was, in the words of an Iraqi journalist, a "horrible massacre zone...
Some experts fear that Iran may redouble its air attacks against tankers leaving ports in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, two of Iraq's chief financial backers. Iran could also launch its long-awaited offensive along the central battlefront between Baghdad and Basra, where Tehran claims to have 650,000 men. Whatever the response, the Sirri raid has only increased the ferocity of a seemingly endless...
Triage is the French military term for the battlefront procedure by which overworked surgeons reject some casualties as too lightly wounded to require treatment, reject others as too badly wounded to be saved, and concentrate their limited resources on the remainder. No matter how it is done, triage is a cruel procedure, perhaps an immoral one, but generally recognized as necessary...
...spattered book that was found with the body of the soldier offered a revealing glimpse of the fanaticism that has kept the war at its fevered pitch. The 193-page battlefront primer, titled Book of Souvenirs: Propaganda for the Front and for the War is the work of the Ayatullah's Revolutionary Guards and was intended to embolden the young volunteers in suicidal human-wave attacks. The bottom corner of each page of the book bears a printed blood-red splotch, symbolizing glorious martyrdom. There are photographs showing the Ayatullah in the midst of adoring Iranian masses, and crude...
...troops of the elite U.S.-trained Atlacatl mobile battalion were rooting out base camps occupied by the Peoples' Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), the largest and most aggressive of the five guerrilla groups that constitute the 10,000-strong F.M.L.N. As Yánez made the rounds of the battlefront, he delivered a message of encouragement. "Your being out here means that the campesinos now have a chance to work," he told...