Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most Lebanese Christians belong, said in a press conference that the President should "take a trip" abroad and turn over power to Army Chief Brigadier General Fuad Shehab. Otherwise, he warned, the half-Christian, half-Moslem republic of Lebanon might see its civil war turn into a disastrous religious conflict...
WHRB's petition for a channel change came as a result of conflict with the signal of WBZ-FM, which went into operation last fall. Shortly after the petition was submitted in January, it was learned that WKOX-AM in Framingham had asked that the Table of Allocations be amended to permit them to operate on channel 288, within two-tenths of a megacycle of the proposed new WHRB frequency...
Malone has said that granting both petitions would result in "intolerable conflict between Cambridge and Framingham...
This new objectivity is another indication that time has healed most of the wounds of conflict between the Mormons and the rest of America. America's modern acceptance of the Mormons may be mainly a result of the average American's lack of religious conviction, but in any case this acceptance is a far cry from Mormonism's unpopularity in the last century In addition to the increasing objectivity of non-Mormon observers, the abolition of polygamy and the increasing growth and acceptance of Mormonism have meant a lessened Mormon sensitivity to examination of their society...
...fraud and positive harm . . . Unless the situation is ripe for settlement, then, no matter how eminent the participants, how perceptive their insight, how bold and imaginative their conceptions, their efforts will fail. In the last twelve years the international conference has ceased to be an instrument for ending conflict and has become one for continuing it. For high international negotiations it is not necessary that chiefs of state or heads of government be involved...