Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roadside execution provoked a predictable spree of Moslem revenge. Before long, the road between Tripoli and Zgharta had become a battleground. The private militias of opposing political factions hammered one another with automatic weapons, dynamite, plastique, .50-cal. machine guns and 120-mm. mortars. Newsmen who managed to reach Zgharta reported that some Lebanese army vehicles and internal-security-force Jeeps in the town had their license plates covered with paper or daubed with mud-suggesting that these units were covertly aiding the Christians. As the fighting increased between a reported 3,000-man Moslem force and 2,000 Zghartawis...
This week the battleground is situated on the banks of the East River in New York City, where a United Nations Special Session on Development and International Economic Cooperation is assembling. The U.N. meeting promises to be a pivotal event in the deepening confrontation between the affluent and the newly combative poor. Undoubtedly, Third World orators will restate what is quickly becoming their principal theme: the poor nations have been ruthlessly exploited by the rich, thereby causing many of the Third World's seemingly intractable development problems; and the rich must now make a special effort to help...
...thus self-confidence." The combatants, exhausted after eleven days of fighting that had taken at least 120 more lives, began to disperse their private armies. But at week's end a Palestinian youth was shot down by a street gang, and suddenly the city was again a battleground. South of Beirut, a Christian village and a Moslem village exchanged rocket and mortar fire; a merchant in the Christian community was killed. It is thus clear that Karami's first mission-re-establishing order-may be his hardest...
...dramatic as the clearing of the canal has been the restoration of the main cities that line it. Since the 1967 war, Port Said, Ismailia and Suez had been part of the Arab-Israeli battleground, and most residents had fled for safety to such cities as Cairo and Alexandria. After the Israeli pullback from Suez last March, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gave priority to a $7.2 billion renovation plan for the Canal Zone -in part to create a visible symbol of Egypt's desire for peace...
...nation. In the '50s the flag remained unassailable, the military beyond challenge. After all, only a few years before, another group of boys had gone off to war and had returned covered with honor and rewards. The movies advertised the glories of The Sands of Iwo Jima and Battleground. Who were a bunch of 18-year-olds to dispute their elders on the draft board...