Word: terraine
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...start winking out. A few miles away, villagers desert quiet country lanes for tile-or thatch-roofed cottages. And a few miles beyond that, perhaps an hour's drive from the teeming capital and its 6.5 million people, U.S. and South Korean soldiers anxiously scan the dark, austere terrain of the Demilitarized Zone. All along the 150-mile-long DMZ, from concrete-hardened bunkers or on tense patrols, they watch through the night for infiltrators, saboteurs or commandos from the Communist North...
...shape, Stilwell has ordered an exhausting training regimen, and no outfit has carried his orders further than the 2nd Division. Each quarter, every unit of the 2nd undergoes two weeks of training in night fighting; the men sleep during the day and maneuver at night in rugged terrain to accustom themselves to the night attacks employed by Communist troops 25 years ago. Every six months the division's infantrymen participate in air-mobile exercises complete with artillery support, helicopter gunships and fighter-bombers-and live ammunition...
...that she is rich and free, "the girl of the '70s," Margaux is moving from pop fame to superstardom. Her life seems to stretch ahead of her like a field of virgin snow. Margaux likes that terrain. Says she: "I love to ski in powder. Then I can look back and see my tracks alone-nobody else...
...Shipyard, where a 29-ft. decline in the land level has forced the Navy, oil companies and others to build flood-control dikes. Besides twisting railroad tracks, crushing oil-well casings and undermining buildings, the slumping of the ground has also triggered small earthquakes. To jack up the sunken terrain, the city of Long Beach has been forcing water back into the ground...
...years Marcos has been trying to suppress the nearly 20,000 Moslem rebels, but his troops have suffered heavy casualties in the unfamiliar terrain; moreover the fighting has imposed a heavy drain on the national treasury. In recent weeks Marcos has questioned the value of the U.S.-Philippine mutual defense treaty. Some observers believe that he wants the existing treaty strengthened so that it unequivocally commits Washington to aid the Philippines if they are attacked and perhaps even provide some help in suppressing the insurgents...