Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese easily outmaneuvered Peking in the propaganda war if not on the battlefield. They issued virulent denunciations of Chinese conduct, including alleged atrocities and biological warfare. Radio Hanoi claimed that Chinese warplanes bombed factories, power plants and communications centers, inflicting "terrible" damage and civilian casualties, and that Chinese artillery fired "chemical shells" at border targets. Backing up its ally, the Soviet Union accused Chinese troops of indiscriminately burning down villages and shooting women and children. Pravda, in a dispatch from Lang Son, alleged that a Chinese unit intercepted a civilian bus on a country road and executed all the passengers...
Army. The Chinese, moreover, have primitive battlefield communications; they still sometimes use runners and bicyclists. The Vietnamese are equipped with modern radio and field telephones, many of them American-made...
...matter how much the U.S. increases its arms ship ments, Thailand would still be hopelessly outclassed on the battlefield in all-out war. The well-equipped Vietnamese out number Thailand's 141,000-man army by a ratio of more than 4 to 1. And Viet Nam's battle-hardened forces are in a class apart from the Thai sol diers, who are led by officers generally more interested in politics and moneymaking than fighting. As nearly as anyone can recall, the Thai army has not fully mobilized for a war since...
...essential Waugh hero is a British Don Quixote dejectedly tilting at the 20th century. His troubles begin with a code of honor that is ill suited for campaigns in society or on the battlefield. Humor is shaped by innumerable collisions with bad manners, bad writing, bad architecture and bad service...
Scenes from several of Woody's movies highlight the half-hour. They always illustrate points made by the surrounding narrative but they break up the audience nonetheless. There on the screen is the Woody Allen we have come to know (maybe) and love--Woody flying over the battlefield in Love and Death, Woody as a robot of sorts in Sleeper, Woody talking to Diane Keaton in Annie Hall--and these scenes alone carry the film...