Word: battleground
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...colliding in the upper atmosphere, the older party regulars and the new ambassadors of youth, blacks and females will confront one another with sometimes furiously different notions of how to run a convention and, for that matter, a political party. The party platform will be a special battleground, with the black congressional caucus, the National Women's Political Caucus and other groups demanding a voice. Defense spending, tax reform, amnesty, busing-such issues must be struggled over before the nominee is formally chosen, thus making the construction of the platform a doubly complicated task...
COMPANY annual meetings used to be quiet affairs, marred only occasionally by a question from some oddball stockholder about executive salaries or next quarter's profits. This year, however, the annual meeting has emerged as a hot new battleground in the struggle over the social responsibility of business. Organized corporate critics in growing numbers are pressing proxy votes and raising questions from the floor on issues like minority hiring, pollution, defense production and company operations in South Africa. While the challengers have so far lost all their skirmishes, they may be winning a wider war to influence company policy...
...uncertain challenge. The White House is convinced, as one official put it last week, that "if the Vietnamese fight well, this will hasten the end of the war considerably." In short, Washington felt-perhaps too optimistically-the fighting could mean an end to the stalemate, both on the battleground and at the Paris talks...
...togetherness: "We'll find a new way of forgiving, somewhere." In the years following, that magical somewhere became in reality a sad nowhere of hard drugs and forgotten loyalties. Now, however, the gangs are back on the streets with a vengeance born of a decade of upheaval. The battleground is no longer Manhattan's West Side but the Southeast Bronx, a predominantly Puerto Rican ghetto where more than 70 "cliques" or "organizations" have formed in the past year. The members -mostly dropouts, reformed junkies, displaced Viet Nam veterans-are older, angrier, better armed and more socially aware. Their...
...years since its emergence as a major battleground of the Indochina war, Cambodia has teetered precariously between two kinds of trouble -military and political. Last week the once placid nation of 7,000,000 found itself deeply distressed by both...