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Haig used similar terms when he turned to Latin America, the Administration's other publicized battleground in its struggle against Soviet expansionism. If Cuba did not halt the flow of arms to rebels in El Salvador, Haig warned, pos sible U.S. responses "include consideration of a whole range of American as sets." Cuban and Soviet bloc intervention in Latin America, he contended, is part of a "four-phased operation" that began with "the seizure of Nicaragua," a country whose new government Carter courted but Reagan seemed almost prepared to write off. Said Haig: "Next is El Salvador...
Zalmie is wounded while performing in a USO show during World War One and returns home, maturing into a sort of Vito Corleone. America becomes the battleground, and Al Capone-style gang killings flash left and right, suspended in a vacuum, as "Sweet Georgia Brown" trumpets on the soundtrack. After Zalmie's wife is gunned down, he goes to his son Benny who is playing jazz with blacks, and pleads, "If you won't live my dream, at least live my life"--a characteristically melodramatic clinker that calls embarassing attention to itself...
Radio and television messages to the boys at the front. Small-town burials of flag-draped coffins. Posthumous awards for valor. These are daily reminders of South Africa 's seemingly endless, distant bush war, which has droned on for 14 years. The battleground is Namibia (South West Africa), which South Africa has controlled since 1920. A flurry of hope for a negotiated cease-fire was shattered in Geneva last month when a United Nations conference on Namibia's future broke down. Reason: South Africa refused to risk an independent government led by the Marxist-oriented South West Africa...
...Crimson, however, proved to be more than the hosts could handle. The grapplers notched six decisions in ten attempts, including victories in the 126-lb. and Heavyweight divisions which Lee had earlier identified as "battleground" weights...
...short--against the U.S. and driven them into the arms of the Soviet Union. Moreover, continuing to support "mildly repressive" regimes in the name of stability, as Kirkpatrick suggests, will bring the United States into direct opposition with the Soviet Union, turning the continent into yet another battleground between competing U.S. and Soviet factions. If Reagan and Kirkpatrick truly want peace with the Soviets, then limited involvement and mutual non-intervention must be the primary goal of an early U.S.-Soviet agreement...