Word: battlegrounds
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...from sheer loneliness. So Carlo sipped his Budweiser and learned to hate Cosell, but all the time he wanted to be cruising up the social ladder after some debutante, wearing topsiders and down vest and talking like a Cabot. The problem was, he stood in the middle of the battleground...
...police-state apparatus that gives his government virtually unlimited powers of detention without trial. These are not the moves of a man who is about to compromise. Rather than relieve the mounting pressure, he appears to be preparing to confront it, and possibly turn South Africa into a battleground. If Vorster opts for repression over conciliation, I am afraid I cannot be very optimistic about the long-term prospects for this rich, beautiful country...
...next ten hours the New Rochelle freight terminal was a battleground. Twenty sharpshooters spread out into houses and onto nearby roofs waiting for a shot at Cowan, and police helicopters whirled overhead. By midafternoon, police got inside the building and moved cautiously from office to office, looking for Cowan. They finally found him, dead by his own gun, as darkness descended...
...Indochina is not over. It has merely moved to a new battleground -Thailand. Prime Minister Tanin Kraivixien now calls the long-smoldering (at least eleven years) insurgency by Communist guerrillas the gravest threat to Thailand's internal security. Long ignored by Bangkok, the increasingly bold Communist attacks have become a focus of concern in the 3½ months since the military's National Administrative Reform Council swept aside Thailand's wobbly democracy (TIME, Oct. 18). In their armed struggle against Tanin's military-backed government, Communist guerrillas have killed more than 90 soldiers and police since...
...Assembly. In a solemn, hourlong address, he rejected the Soviet charges in blunt terms. Washington, he said, had become involved diplomatically in southern Africa because it was convinced that "racial injustice and the grudging retreat of colonial power" had raised the possibility that the region could become "a vicious battleground with consequences for every part of the world...