Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinian issue that shows most clearly how the Carter Administration is moving more toward Arab than Israeli views, increasing the likelihood of a U.S.-Israeli clash despite the artificial joviality surrounding Begin's recent U.S. visit. The U.S. now accepts the Arab argument-with softer qualifications than before-that Palestinians should be included in negotiations. Moreover, Washington is searching for some way to open a dialogue between the U.S. and Yasser Arafat's P.L.O.-if the Palestinians are willing to accept the terms of an American push for peace...
...with four key Arab leaders: Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Syria's Hafez Assad, Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd. Despite serious and perhaps insurmountable policy differences with Israel, Administration officials are doing their best to downplay the prospect of a clash between Carter and Begin. "There will be significant differences of opinion," says one official involved with the advanced planning, "but they are not going to be throwing chairs at each other...
...showcase exhibition for one of Moscow's best-known painters had turned into an embarrassing clash between the artist and the state. Ilya Glazunov, 47, caused the cancellation of his own 300-canvas show by insisting that authorities include a work that violated the art censors' cherished canons of "socialist realism"-i.e., political propriety...
Buzz and Blast. Up on the stage can be found a numbing array of groups and soloists whose names dramatize the nihilism and brute force that have inspired the movement: Clash, Thunder-train, Weirdos, Dictators, Stranglers, Damned, and the demon-eyed New Yorker who could become the Mick Jagger of punk, Richard Hell. The music aims for the gut. Even compared with the more elemental stylings of 1950s rock 'n' roll-which it closely resembles -punk rock is a primal scream. The music comes in fast, short bursts of buzz and blast. Some groups have...
Howard Hughes, who honed to perfection an almost fiendish talent for playing off his aides and lawyers against one other, would be delighted with the tangled mess he left behind. His death 14 months ago immediately set up a potential clash between his long-estranged family and the financially privileged insiders who ran Hughes' solely owned Summa Corp., which was founded in 1972 to oversee his vast holdings. At first, to almost everybody's surprise, peace reigned between the rival camps. But, after months of growing tensions, a full-scale battle for Hughes' fortune has now broken...