Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...moment, American special units are still spending most of their time learning about Viet Nam-style field tactics. Their sophistication about international terrorism is less than that of the SWAT units in major city police departments. Terrorism is the war of the 1980s. David E. Steele Los Angeles
DIED. Carl Ebert, 93, German-born opera manager and stage director; in Santa Monica, Calif. Originally an actor, Ebert moved into the then relatively new field of opera management in Darmstadt in 1927, with as his assistant Rudolf Bing, who later went on to run New York City's Metropolitan Opera for 22 years. Later, Ebert helped found the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and led the Berlin Municipal Opera before and after the Hitler era (which he spent in Britain and the U.S.) until his retirement...
...NOTEBOOK: The all-tourney team included Bingham at first base, Farrell in right field and Chicarello as the designated hitter. at Orono, Maine ST. JOHN'S AB R H BI Latrenta cf 4 11 1 Scafa 2b 5 02 0 Amythy 1b 5 11 0 Girdmo dh 5 01 0 Maruffi rf 4 21 0 Miller ss 5 11 3 Marasa If 3 00 0 Simeti ph 1 00 0 deGrchy If 1 00 0 Borriello c 3 12 0 Kovisky 3b 5 03 1 Totals 40 6 12 5 HARVARD Chirorello dh 2 11 0 Pearce...
...stubbly field, a crowd in gas masks and padding masses, many carrying shields with "NLF" spraypainted on the front. Across the clearing stand uniformed men with four-foot super-nightsticks in their hands, their backs to the towering construction site that will someday be the Seabrook Nuclear Generating Station. Shields in hand, protesters charge, slashing at the fence with boltcutters, tugging at it with grappling hooks. A stream of mace comes from the other side, where National Guard and state police beat at the shields and try to grab the cutters. Within minutes, a pepperfogger arrives and tear gas clouds...
...half past one, and after lunch (considerably more protesters opt for hotdogs and Coke than the mashed bean and sprout spread the Clamshell food tent is dishing out), the main body heads out through the woods to the field. Like old European battles, both sides have the decency to wait for the other to prepare--more police arrive by the minute. On signal, the demonstrators hook one section of fence and pull, and glory be to God it comes down, allowing access to a twenty-by-thirty foot storage yard surrounded by another fence. Before the demonstrators can claim this...