Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Government career of Peter Strobel seemed to be drawing to an end after three days of hearings before Representative Emanuel Celler's House Judiciary subcommittee, which is probing possible conflict of interest of businessmen in Government...
...have representative government when we have office holders committed to the views of a small minority of a minority organization? The writer is not in conflict with the principle of civic reform, urban renewal, or municipal efficiency. He merely feels that some consideration for the views of city planning board technicians, parents, and the general public might be more in keeping with democratic principles.... Edmund J. Casey (Independent and Democratic Candidate for City Council...
...have correctly diagnosed the surface political struggle in Cambridge as a conflict between the Cambridge Civic Association and the old guard politicians of pre-reform days. It is also true that under ten years of CCA rule Cambridge city government has increased in honesty and efficiency. Much of the credit for the progress of Cambridge should be awarded to John B. Atkinson, who was city manager...
...single international problem deserves the adjective "insoluble," the Arab-Israeli conflict would seem to be the leading contender for that dubious honor. For seven years, the pressure of hatred has been rising across both sides of Israel's four hundred mile frontiers. The leaders of neighboring Arab countries are apparently no more reconciled to the existence of Israel today than they were in 1948, when their armies invaded Palestine in an effort to drive the citizens of the new state into the Mediterranean. Only last month Cairo Radio compared Israel to "a hopeless prisoner doomed to be hanged." The years...
...Author Lewis is as carefully dispassionate as Spain's José Maria Gironella in The Cypresses Believe in God, which massively documented the forces that carried Spain toward civil war (TIME, April 18). Lewis shows that in their hearts both sides have become tired of the stubbornly continuing conflict. The revolutionary has begun to suspect the motives of the revolution, the chief of police is sick of police power. In the end, Author Lewis seems to echo the policeman's plea: "Let's hear no more about Reds or Falangists either. Haven...