Word: battlegrounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain's industrial crisis were not trouble enough, the country last week once more became a battleground for Arab-Israeli tension. In the wake of a report by the Beirut weekly al Liwa that Palestinian guerrillas and the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army had agreed to carry out joint acts of terrorism in Britain, a prominent British Zionist was shot in a bold attack...
...most reactionary guards in Massachusetts and a large majority of prisoners serving long sentences who are not eligible for the reforms. While reforms were being introduced at other prisons, Walpole was maintained as the security unit. This was the grave weakness of Boone's administration Walpole became the battleground of the system...
...reward to his young leftist supporters, Cámpora pardoned jailed guerrillas and told police to ease up on leftists. Meanwhile kidnaping and political murders increased. When Perón returned from exile last June, he was shocked to see the meadows adjoining Ezeiza Airport turned into a battleground between warring Peronists. In an address on nationwide radio and television, Perón immediately blasted those who sought to "grab" the movement from its rightful leader. Three weeks later he sacked Cámpora, who has been banished from Perón's inner circle. Presumably Cámpora...
Cambridge, unlike other New England cities is not a battleground for Democrats and Republicans. It is a watering-hole for two feuding machines: the "independents" and the "reformers." But then, Cambridge is not your every-day run-of-the-mill cities. It is a diverse, and sometimes bizarre mixture of working class and intelligentsia, of black and white, of ethnics of rooted and rootless, and Yankees, and of separate communities that lack any common link but their unification into a single suburban city...
...politics of the cease-fire were being worked out by big powers the battleground situation in the Middle East remained ambiguous throughout the week, Egypt and Israel exchanging charges that the other had violated the cease-fire accord. Clearly, the ceasefire was not being honored...