Word: bivouacs
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...Marines defused land mines and improved their bivouac positions, Washington was also moving on the broader questions that face the Middle East. U.S. Negotiator Morris Draper was in Beirut and Jerusalem, trying, with little success, to negotiate a withdrawal of Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian fighting forces from Lebanon. Late last week the U.S. reacted with unusual vehemence to a speech by Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Minister David Levy, who declared that five new Jewish settlements would soon be established on the West Bank. In his Sept. 1 speech outlining a new peace plan for the Middle...
...Syrians would soon leave Lebanon. Indeed, both sides have professed their willingness to do so. Other U.S. officials skeptically noted the extent to which the Israeli army had dug itself into southern Lebanon, building warehouses and winter quarters. Observed one White House aide: "This is not a little bivouac." The Syrians, who have some 30,000 troops in the Bekaa Valley, will not leave until the Israelis do. The long-range U.S. goal in Lebanon is to create enough stability on the northern border of Israel to reduce its security fears and lead to some solution of the Palestinian issue...
...have historically allowed themselves to become confused by the fact that their practical excellence has been so profitable. But the meaning of excellence (serious excellence, not Big Macs) is essentially metaphysical. Excellent things are constantly destroyed, of course- bombed, defaced, or else misunderstood; a conquering army may some day bivouac in the Sistine Chapel and take idle target practice at the ceiling. But excellence is essentially invulnerable. It carries the prestige of the infinite with it, an ancestral resemblance to the ideal. It is ecstatic. For an irrevocable moment, it gives the mind what Melville called "top-gallant delight...
...empire builders and even high-flying U.S. espionage planes have all, at one time or another, made use of Peshawar's strategic semidesert location at the base of the Khyber Pass. Today Peshawar, which is only 34 miles from the Afghan border, has become the principal bivouac and nerve center for Afghan rebels who have crossed the border to escape the invading Soviet troops. Last week, after a visit to the city-whose population of 300,000 has been swollen by thousands of refugees-TIME Correspondent David DeVoss filed this report: There are at least 60 different rebel factions...
133O: "We're moving out!" yells the platoon commander. Duden slaps on her helmet and shoulders her knapsack. The next objective, a bivouac site, is about 1,500 meters away. Firing breaks out. Duden crouches with the M-16 on her shoulder. The platoon wades through a stream 3 ft. deep. Darnell, barreling ahead, pushes past Duden. "Don't you ever shove me again!" she shouts after...