Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Americana (1971), Don DeLillo has converted our national confusions into witty, imaginative fiction. End Zone, a resourceful handling of football and nuclear war, brought him wide and serious attention. But without bestseller sales figures or a dependable cult following, he has become something of a reviewer's writer, a provider of topical allegories ripe for explanation and interpretation. Great Jones Street confronted the void of celebrity, and Ratner's Star measured the gap between science and humanity. There were terrorists in Players, spies and pornography in Running Dog and cult killers in The Names...
...relief effort. Operating out of underground bunkers in Eritrea, they organize occasional truck convoys to ferry supplies from Port Sudan on the Red Sea into their territory. What the insurgents lack, however, is access to adequate relief supplies and the means to transport them through a war zone. The Mengistu government has refused rebel offers of free passage for food aid intended to reach the hinterland's of the war-torn provinces...
...Vietnamese, "If you fire at us, we'll invade Thailand." In the end, the Vietnamese pulled back into Kampuchea after being warned that the Thai government would "take action." Thai soldiers set out orange sticks marking the frontier, and the two forces agreed to establish a 22-yd. demilitarized zone on each side of the line...
...civilian refugees into Thailand; the threat to Ampil added 23,000 more. Many of the guerrillas are expected to filter back into Kampuchea, but the Vietnamese have made public statements indicating that they intend a permanent occupation of the border region, depriving the guerrillas of their comfortable zone of sanctuary. If the K.P.N.L.F. intends to fight on, it will probably have to abandon static defenses in favor of more classic guerrilla tactics, dispersing its strength and moving deeper into the Kampuchean countryside. Said one analyst in Thailand: "If you're going to be a proper guerrilla...
...stop the "Star Wars" project would be to end a hope for all mankind, the miraculous freedom "from Nuclear War (The "Evil Empire's" ultimate goal), by building more weapons for our already immensely good arsenal and putting them in the only heretofore unprotected zone known to man, space...