Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gouzenko, 35, intends to go on paying the Soviets back in "one novel after another," and promises to tell more of his personal story in his second novel, built around the mental conflict in a Soviet agent between his duty to Russia and the "emotional appeal of a free society...
Friendly Veto. To many laymen the clash in Guatemala seemed a civil conflict with some international overtones; the original staging area was certainly Honduras, and the first planes came from somewhere outside Guatemala. In the council, what it was became a legal question. Brazil and Colombia, terming it a "dispute," proposed to turn its solution over to the U.N.'s regional organization, the OAS. Guatemala, which had seen the OAS vote 17-1 against it at Caracas, howled no.. The issue, it cried, was "criminal aggression," initiated by the United Fruit Co. and "fomented by the State Department...
Magsaysay got his legislation enacted only because he finally faced up to a conflict with the senior Nacionalista Party leaders, the very men who persuaded him to leave ex-President Quirino's Liberal Party last year and run for President as a Nacionalista. The core of the conflict, the question to be decided, is whether the old politicos or Magsaysay will govern the nation, and for whose benefit...
...pledged all elected officials to "carry out the mandate of the national electorate," including Magsaysay's campaign promise of land reform. In two direct par agraphs, Magsaysay laid before the politicians the heart of the conflict: "Recognizing the clear and inescapable threat of Communist imperialism . . . the administration seeks participation in the free world's collective security mechaniasm to the fullest extent of our capabilities...
...regulated by state bodies, such as the Texas Railroad Commission. While the FPC must set a ceiling on rates, the state agencies set a floor under them, in the interest of encouraging exploration and development of new fields and avoiding waste through overproduction. If floor and ceiling collide, the conflict may have to be ironed out in the courts again...