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...Iran and Iraq. Geographically, though, the two places are worlds apart. Senior correspondent James Wilde observed combat scenes for six years in Vietnam, "spending hours floundering around in swamps, up to the waist in water." Says Wilde, who is based in Rome: "Give me the desert anytime." The jungle terrain and guerrilla nature of the war in Southeast Asia made for unconventional fighting, recalls correspondent James Willwerth. During his 14 months in Vietnam, he witnessed ground won in bitter campaigns at great human cost changing hands again and again. By contrast, he says, a war in the gulf area would...
Teicholz wisely refrains from leading his own tour into the dark terrain of Demjanjuk's mind. "Demjanjuk had given abstract evil a human face," he writes. Only Demjanjuk's victims can describe what it looked like when the mask was removed...
Missouri. By 3 to 1, voters turned down a plan to manage use of the state's 52 free-flowing streams. In addition to banning dams, all-terrain vehicles and noisy motorboats, it would have required local communities to submit waterway- management plans to a state commission...
Like a deaf child born into a hearing family, I found myself born with a radical difference that suddenly made me alien to my family and to society. Exploring Katz's history of American same-sex relations since 1607 opened up a vast terrain on the horizons of history and culture...
...brightest spot of all was the come-from-behind performance of junior Spencer Punter. At the two-mile mark, Punter attacked the rocky terrain, moving from 22nd to third before reaching the tape...