Word: battlegrounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were reserved for whites for a limited time. The task for Britain, and for the delegates to the London conference, is to come up with an equally fair and manageable arrangement for Zimbabwe. It is also needed to insure that Zimbabwe will wind up with a government, not a battleground. A continuing war in Zimbabwe can only worsen turmoil in southern Africa, bring in the South Africans and the superpowers, and aggravate other festering sores in Namibia and elsewhere in Africa...
...assistance was answered by an outpouring of arms from Britain and the U.S., refused to discuss the matter until the Chinese completely departed from Aksai Chin, which they still retain. Today a few Chinese and Indian troops still face each other in the mountain passes of the former battleground. And on the official maps of both countries, the borders are still drawn in exactly the same places they were before China's invasion...
...peace and terrorism dominated the headlines. Lebanon's capital was a battleground once more, as Syrian forces in Beirut tried to crush militant right-wing Christian armies. Cambodia and Viet Nam set about invalidating the domino theory (if Viet Nam goes Communist, the rest of Southeast Asia will go too) by slashing at each other's throats in border war instead of pursuing a common ideological expansion. The Shah of Iran's 37-year reign was shaken by week upon week of riots. In Italy, the Red Brigades kidnaped former Premier Aldo Moro, held him for 54 days, then shot...
...never before and relegating some of his evangelism on such things as tax reform and Government reorganization to the dim corners, it not oblivion. Carter has been compelled to choose, the very crux of leadership. He has declared inflation the principal adversary of America. He has chosen the battleground and marshaled all of his considerable energy and talent for the effort...
Kemp said yesterday "the battleground would shift (if the measure failed) from the Congress to the general elections...the issue will not be laid to rest...