Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 40 black faculty members and administrators met last night to discuss ways of responding as a group to the continuing conflict between black students and the Harvard administration over the hiring of minority group construction workers...
...even more basic argument against any stab-in-the-back theory is that the military only belatedly made the case for an all-out effort. Especially in the conflict's early years, the professionals of war were thinking in the old way of victory on the battlefield, and troops conventionally trained by the U.S. were a little like the British redcoats fighting in lines as they engaged in forest skirmishes against the American colonists and their Indian allies. Clumsy U.S. battalions in the mid-1960s were out of place in the jungles, swamps and highlands of South Viet...
Mujica-Lainez focuses this aesthetic and religious conflict in the mind and body of Bomarzo's Duke Orsini. He recreates him as a hunchback who tells the story of his life as an omniscient observer, not only aware of his own time but of events from the time of his death until the present. Mujica-Lainez's implication is clear: Orsini's true immortality resides not in the few historical facts and artifacts we know but in his re-creation as a fictional character...
WASHINGTON, AP-President Nixon promised the nation Monday night a Christmastime announcement of new U.S. troop withdrawals from South Vietnam, and said his current policy will bring the conflict to a conclusion no matter what happens at the negotiating table...
What can the U.S. learn from the Scandinavians? Among other things, there could be more regular contact between labor and management negotiators, prior agreement to negotiate any point of conflict and earlier involvement of national unions in local disputes. Beyond that, the price for labor peace in the U.S. would require that both labor and management relinquish part of their cherished economic sovereignty. So far, the U.S. has not even begun to debate that question...