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Although Idaho is landbound territory a few thousand miles from the tropics. the Panama Canal has become a major issue in the state's election. Church, remember, helped hand the trench over to the Panamanians, a move he contends kept Panama friendly to the U.S. Symms, though, cites the episode as evidence of Church's general softness and has forced Church to spend a good deal of his stump time discussing the waterway...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: An III Wind Doth Blow | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

Only in the September 27 trench war at New Hampshire has the team played so well. Although Harvard fired only six shots at the Dartmouth net, continual movement and crisp, intelligent passes kept the Crimson in a game which, let's face it, it had no business staying...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Sparkling Dartmouth Tips Stickwomen | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...they die. It is a gruesome portrait of war, more horrible than the intellectualized horror of Apocalypse Now and more realistic than The Deer Hunter's chamber-spinning metaphor for horror. It more closely resembles Stanley Kubrick's evocation of the butchering sen-selessness of trench warfare in his anti-war film, Paths of Glory...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Fine Art of Survival | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...mines at head, chest and knee level that can be triggered automatically by trip wires or detonated from nearby guard towers. For 547 yds. back into East Germany, all vegetation has been cleared, and the ground is raked regularly so telltale footprints will show. Farther back runs a deep trench that prevents vehicles from reaching the fence. Nearly a mile inside the border is a second fence, equipped with detection devices and automatically triggered shotguns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: Life Along the Death Strip | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...they die. It is a gruesome portrait of war, more horrible than the intellectualized horror of Apocalypse Now and more realistic than The Deer Hunter's chamber-spinning metaphor for horror. It more closely resembles Stanley Kubrick's evocation of the butchering sen-selessness of trench warfare in his anti-war film, Paths of Glory...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Fine Art of Survival | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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