Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cries In the Council. The Council (in U.N.'s apt official phrase) was "seized with" the India-Pakistan conflict. India's Minister without Portfolio, N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar, accused Pakistan of arming Afghans and tribesmen of the North-West Frontier Province for their raids on the state of Kashmir (which recently joined India). His Oxford accent crackling crisply, Ayyangar appealed to the Security Council to use its "undoubted influence and power...
...taker is asked to run through the strange, leering faces again & again, perhaps as often as ten times. His choices, blocked in on a complicated scorecard like a crossword puzzle blank, are revealing to the psychiatrist. The filled-in squares on the scorecard can be translated into signs of "conflict" in the four fundamental fields of sexuality, emotional control, "ego structure" (estimate and control of self) and "object relationship" (adjustment to reality...
...Mediterranean is not the most important area in the conflict between the West and Russia; it ranks after Germany (where the U.S. and Britain are gaining ground) and after China (where Communist success continues). Nevertheless, last week's big power news focused sharply on the Mediterranean; Russia's instruments were probing more & more aggressively for weaknesses in the West's position...
...growing scale of armed conflict pointed up more sharply than ever the danger of war in Palestine when the U.N. takes over full responsibility next...
...Corso d'ltalia a pale-faced friar exclaimed: "No miracle is impossible to God. It is not impossible for God to lift the angry clouds that hang so heavily on 1948's beginning." Barbanera (Black-beard), a popular almanac of astrology, predicted for 1948: "Unsuccessful diplomatic encounters . . . conflict avoided in the nick of time...