Word: clashed
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BRITISH ROCK critic Simon Frith has concluded that "no useful revolution is going to announce itself through stereo head phones." "He was right, of course, but luckily that never deterred performers such as Dylan or the Clash from shoving their hard-line radicalism down our throats. Their music is so compelling that we have forgiven them whatever ideological are they had to grind Occasionally, we even supported them in their assorted causes...
...that is something you could never really glean from an album like Songs of the Free, which to the casual listener can seem almost excruciatingly pedantic. These guys actually have a sense of humor, which is a lot more than you can say about such dogged revolutionaries as the Clash. When King screams. "The girls they love to see you shoot" or "Life! It's a shame" in concert, you almost have to laugh, and by their commanding presence on stage, they betray the happy revelation that maybe they aren't that hardened after all. Maybe Marxism can even...
...Iraqis claimed that 1,564 Iranians had been killed in the clash and 65 Iranian tanks had been destroyed. For their part, the Iranians claimed that 2,100 Iraqis had been killed or wounded, and that 372 Iraqi tanks and armored personnel carriers had been destroyed. Whatever the truth, casualties were heavy on both sides, and, as U.S. intelligence satellites confirmed, the Iraqi lines had held...
...increasingly bitter clash between Washington and its Western European allies over the pipeline is far more than a dispute over narrow commercial interests. It is a conceptual fissure that goes to the heart of the Atlantic Alliance's very reason for existence. It reveals sharp, perhaps irreconcilable differences in the answers to some of the most pressing security issues facing the West: What are its true interests in dealing with a Communist system that is spectacularly failing on a domestic level but has turned into a military power equal to the U.S.? Should the West lend a helping hand...
...many Senators on both sides of the aisle who are critical of the Administration's foreign policy, but it was clear from the beginning that no one had any serious intention of blocking the nomination. In trying to cope with two battlefront confrontations in the Middle East, a clash with European allies on economic policy and an uncertain but distinctly cool relationship with the Soviet Union, the President urgently needs all the professional help...