Word: battlegrounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week of 1971 was typical of life in the dour, grimy Victorian cities of the North that are a battleground in the conflict between the British army and the outlawed terrorist Irish Republican Army. There were bombings in Belfast, Londonderry, Enniskillen and the village of Rostrevor. where the I.R.A. destroyed the country house of Ivan Neill, Speaker of the Ulster House of Commons. (Neill and his wife were away...
...state, apprehensively watches these comings and goings from his own Columbus office. Not to be kept out of things, Hubert Humphrey was in the state last week for hearings of a Senate rural poverty subcommittee. Henry Jackson's men have also been eying the state as a potential battleground...
Cambodia last week was the main battleground of Southeast Asia-lamentably so, since its chief role in the war is as an unwilling sanctuary and supply base for the North Vietnamese. Once again trying to disrupt that sanctuary, 25,000 South Vietnamese troops last week were engaged in a much-ballyhooed sweep through the rubber plantations of eastern Cambodia against moderate resistance and with inconclusive results. In another theater, the Cambodians were reeling from a major defeat at the hands of the North Vietnamese two weeks ago. And for the first time since the war began, Cambodia's capital...
When Lesser and Spearmint have a showdown, with hatchet and saber respectively, the abandoned tenement is transformed into a hallucination of a jungle battleground. The realistic props that Malamud has so expertly designed are yanked away, and the two writers assume the proportions of brutal historical forces. Significant blows are struck. White buries his weapon in black's brain. Black directs a castrating swipe at white's sexuality. Malamud himself brings the curtain down with the brooding thought that at the moment of ritual bloodletting each felt the anguish of the other...
Battle of Destiny. Despite the deployment of troops, a blowup of the conflict between Syria and Jordan is still an extremely remote possibility. Far more worrisome would be the revival of hostilities at another Middle Eastern battleground, the Suez Canal. Last week Editor Hassanein Heikal wrote in Cairo's authoritative Al Ahram that Egypt's President Anwar Sadat had given Washington until early this week to produce diplomatic results with the Israelis. Did that mean Egypt would resume its "war of attrition" if decisive results were not forthcoming, particularly concerning an Israeli pullback from the canal...