Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fares the world?" asks TIME's Essay this week, and in effect replies: "Better than you think." Essay's tour of world horizons beyond the Viet Nam battleground is a reminder of the fact that some of the most important news is made not by instant headlines but by gradually developing trends. Such news-in-progress is exemplified by two major TIME stories in the fields of foreign affairs and medicine...
...dark library shelves." The publisher, Harper & Row, did not dream of a first printing of 600,000, or of "the bestseller of the century," as it is now freely described. Few foresaw that The Death of a President would become not only a publishing phenomenon but also an emotional battleground-a book about which other books will be written...
...latest Hanoi war commentaries are tentatively coming to terms with that reality. One speaks of "a kind of flexible, kaleidoscopic battleground," another of eventual triumph "through the accumulation of many small victories." A Politburo member writing under the pen name of Cuu Long, meaning "nine dragons," has gone so far as to redefine Mao's Phase Three as "the phase of guerrilla warfare coupled with concentrated combat." To some well-placed Western experts, that could be translated as preparation for a retreat to the hit-and-hide tactics of the Communist guerrilla-without loss of face or too obvious...
...Platoon, only two men, one of them critically wounded, survived the murdering crossfire from the Communists. After overrunning the outgunned Americans, the North Vietnamese moved methodically across the platoon's battleground, shooting in the head any American still left alive. The other platoon was better positioned and fought on, calling napalm air strikes down to within 15 ft. of themselves on the charging enemy. The Communists caused heavy casualties before withdrawing, but they left 145 of their own dead on the battlefield. Still, it was one of the worst ambushes of Americans...
...Guadalcanal jungle with the exhausting steepness of the slopes at Chapultepec. Added to that were fusillades of bullets as ferocious as at Tarawa and showers of shrapnel that turned the forest into a tropical Belleau Wood. But "the Rock-pile," as Viet Nam's latest big battleground has come to be called, is weirdly unique. There, just south of the inaccurately named Demilitarized Zone, a task force of six Marine battalions has been battling two entire divisions of North Vietnamese regulars whose apparent aim is to invade Quang Tri province. So far the Reds have failed. Over the past...