Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reporting a shooting war, no matter how historic or dramatic the conflict, involves less glory than sheer danger. Last week, on the first day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, TIME Photographer Barry Iverson was heading south on the coast road between Damur and Sidon when he was caught in an Israeli naval bombardment. An exploding shell wounded him severely in the leg. In shock from the loss of blood, he was taken to a Palestinian hospital, then transferred to the American University Hospital in Beirut, where his leg was surgically pieced together and encased in a steel skeleton cast...
Whatever the outcome, it will surely be remembered as his war: no other Middle East conflict had so unmistakably borne the stamp of one man. He had been spoiling for the fight against the Palestine Liberation Organization since he became Defense Minister last August. He had intensively lobbied Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his Cabinet to approve it. He aggressively directed every logistical detail of it. And, in the end, Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 54, will reap the rewards, or the blame, for the success or failure of the enterprise. The stakes were high: Sharon hopes to become Prime Minister...
...have received an answer. We are seriously concerned about the developments. If the Arab countries do not join forces and repulse the aggressor-and, of course, they need tune to do so because of the unexpectedness of the attack-then at some point in the future the conflict will expand. In short, we stand on the eve of a new Arab-Israeli war. The superpowers have got to head it off, just as we stopped the massacre in 1973. Our fleet is standing by in the Mediterranean. So is the American fleet. Both are moving in the same direction, toward...
...Buenos Aires, the military junta led by President Leopoldo Galtieri defiantly portrayed Argentina as the ultimate win ner of the conflict despite the precarious position of the embattled garrison at Port Stanley. Declared Galtieri: "We will fight for weeks, months or years, but we will never give up sovereignty over the is lands." He seemed to be warning that even if his soldiers were eventually driven off the Falklands, he would wage a long-term war of attrition against the British...
...world's attention shifted to an even bloodier conflict in the Middle East, the Falklands war naturally receded in the priorities of U.S. policymakers. But in his historic address to Britain's Houses of Parliament last week, President Reagan won warm applause for his declaration that British soldiers in the Falklands were "fighting for a cause, for the belief that armed aggression must not be allowed to succeed and that people must participate in the decisions of government under the rule of law." Privately, both the President and Secretary of State Alexander Haig continued to worry over Thatcher...