One of the Americans, Elliott Adler, a stocky fellow with the weather-beaten look of somebody who spends his life outdoors, walked me around the periphery of the minefield, which was just down the road from an oil-processing facility.
As columnist Gerard Courtois wrote in the left-leaning Le Monde this week: "In front of the field of ruins which is the left, and the minefield which is the right… to be the only party not associated with the running of the country is also to be the only one that has not been discredited by failure.
The battalion's attack bogged down at the minefield, which was 600 m deep.
Subsequently, Mount Isa Mines, Ltd., the principal leaseholder, developed the minefields, which are Australia's main source of silver, lead, zinc, and copper.
This novel tracks a now grown Scout as she tries to navigate the emotional minefield which ensues when she discovers that her father was not the man she believed him to be.
She is presumed to have been sunk by a mine from the SN 44 minefield, which was laid on 8 November 1940, just 20 days prior to U-104s disappearance.
While the battlecruisers bombarded the town of Yarmouth, Stralsund laid a minefield, which sank a steamer and the submarine which had sortied to intercept the German raiders.
Meanwhile, heading through what he described as "minefields everywhere," Kenny Read, skipper of the American entry Puma, regained the lead in the first leg of the Volvo round the world race from Alicante to Cape Town as the fleet of eight faced a weekend of picking its way through another minefield, which is the Doldrums.
And the words spoken in this discussion must negotiate a semantic minefield, which must be carefully traversed by anyone engaging in such a conversation about race.
Minefield, which transfers to London's Royal Court after its Brighton dates, presents a different challenge, as it takes the veterans back in time to the young men they were in 1982.
We are left with the hope that Secretary Clinton is fully aware of the minefield into which she walks, and that she sought out the occasion of this meeting to finesse a breakthrough--that in a single stroke the Secretary will honor the suffering of the abductees and their families, while dislodging the issue from the right-wing agenda.
