Word: battlegrounds
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...what's come out of Dallas," she said, "I think that our current plan will certainly be extended." Exulted N.A.A.C.P. Lawyer Jones: "It's a clear victory and one we will be able to use with great effectiveness in the other battles coming up." The first battleground will be Chicago, where the N.A.A.C.P. intends to file a suit within a few months...
...crucial battleground for the upcoming election, however, is likely to be newly oil-rich Scotland. With its commitment to the establishment of a Scottish assembly to deal with a wide range of Scottish matters, Labor hopes that it will pick up a large thank-you vote. In an important by-election in Glasgow last week, Labor won handily, a comforting indication that the Scottish Nationalists' bandwagon is not rolling. The Nationalists, however, have traditionally been drawn from the right, and there is always the chance they might decide to return to their Tory home. As a result, party leaders...
...beyond Hawaii are no more than idyllic images. To Washington, they are an extraterritorial headache. The U.S. has responsibility for more than 2,200 of them, sweeping in a 4,000-mile arc from American Samoa to Guam, with a 2,000-mile lurch northward to include the naval battleground of Midway. Many were the sites of bitter, bloody victories in World War II: Saipan, Tinian, Kwajalein, Truk...
...discrimination, depending on your viewpoint), the call for more law and order, the idea that the federal government tried to do too much too quickly in the '60s and must pull back now, the white flight to suburbia, all fit together into one unhappy picture. Understanding Brooklyn, where the battleground is big, the players easy to spot and the conflict starting early, helps one to understand how the foul weed of neoconservatism flourishes in soil once overgrown with liberal begonias...
...matter how much artillery fire they poured into Khiyam-and the bombardment reached a thousand rounds a day -the Israelis could not dislodge the defenders. At the height of the action, 200 Israelis faced about the same number of Palestinians. Both sides fought bravely, but on that battleground the Israelis would have needed a lot more soldiers than they had to dislodge the Palestinians...