Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will not end the strike; it may do harm, in fact, by obscuring the issues involved with the false reassurance of renewed production. The steel strike--the longest industry-wide stoppage in the country's history--has intensified two issues: the more immediate one of responsibility in the particular conflict of labor and management, and the general degeneration of collective bargaining between two huge economic blocs...
...line must be drawn between those affidavits of belief which the University will accept and those which it will not, President Pusey's decision to continue administration of all National Science Foundation fellowships was a wise one. But the foundations of this decision made by Faculty vote last Tuesday conflict with the University's entire rationale in dealing with the National Defense Education...
Both the oath and affidavit requirements, however, are "intrinsically objectionable," according to the committee. "A requirement of belief or conviction . . .," the report states, "must clearly conflict with the tradition of intellectual non-interference which has been the precious possession of American universities...
Target: Moscow. Put more simply, De Gaulle's determination to delay the summit centers largely around the conflict that today dominates all of French thinking: the five-year-old Algerian war. He wants the summit to wait until the U.N. General Assembly gets around to its annual debate on Algeria, a debate that last year came within a hairbreadth of ending in U.N. censure of France. But he is not, as some critics supposed, primarily trying to blackmail the U.S. and Britain into supporting France in the U.N. His real target is Moscow...
...Ayub has remained firmly pro-Western and a member of CENTO. He is the first leader of Pakistan to make a determined effort to improve relations with India. The problem of the canal waters of the Indus basin is nearing settlement (TIME, June 1). After twelve years of border conflict in Kashmir, an Indian and a Pakistani commission last week concluded talks that may put this problem to rest. Half a year ago, Nehru and most Indians still spoke contemptuously of the "naked military dictatorship" in Pakistan. Today Indians are increasingly aware that social and economic evils still festering...