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...action that the Eritreans still regard as outright colonialism. Their outrage sparked a tiny guerrilla uprising that eventually became a full-scale war, perhaps the largest war now being fought anywhere in the world. In the process, reports TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis after touring the savanna and highland battlefront, the Eritreans have built an extraordinarily effective fighting machine of at least 25,000 men equipped with artillery and rockets. They control at least 85% of the province and all but 300,000 of its people, and their eventual victory appears assured. Says Ahmed Mohammed Nasser, 32, chairman of the Eritrean...
...fled in 1939 when General Francisco Franco's forces overran the Spanish capital. During the bloody siege of Madrid, she admonished housewives to prepare boiling oil to throw at the invaders, and organized a women's brigade that fought alongside the men at the battlefront. "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees," she shouted. 'They shall not pass!" It quickly became the Loyalists' rallying...
TIME'S Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and Correspondent William Marmon, both veterans of battlefront coverage in Viet Nam, had a ringside seat in TIME'S office in the seafront hotel district. They too had to abandon the office to the street fighters for almost a week. Prager evacuated his wife and four children to safety in Athens, Marmon moved his family to London. Returning to the office last week, they found that it had taken about 30 hits, mainly from .50-cal. armor-piercing machine-gun bullets. The desks were covered with shards of glass and plaster...
...lives of the bulk of the Cambodian population." Frankly and refreshingly, he conceded that the U.S. had "no strategic interests" in Cambodia and seemed to admit that, in any case, the military battle had been lost. But that was not true, he insisted, in South Viet Nam. Indeed, battlefront reports from both nations (see next page) supported the White House view that sharp distinctions exist between the two troubling situations. Unfortunately, they also made clear that for all those involved, including the U.S., more anguish and perhaps more difficult choices wait ahead...
...Force. Packed with computers, radars and jamming gear, the AW ACS will be able to spot far-off targets, including very low-flying planes, and feed instructions to wide-ranging U.S. combat aircraft. Over the English Channel recently, a prototype plane was able to direct an entire simulated NATO battlefront, even while it was keeping an eye on aerial movements in East European and Russian airspace as far away as Moscow...